“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of m
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.
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
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
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguis
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You hav
If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my afflict
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me a
“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope: