Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah;
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fo
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from am
So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled it
But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Ho
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint