Jeremiah 8:3

In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and

Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return th

Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out o

Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem,

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the

while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.

Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and

For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizp