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 my own wretchedness.”
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
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
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.
The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
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.
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water