that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
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
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
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