"Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
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And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'