And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
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
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
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
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I w
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.