Verse 9

O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he him selfe went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sat downe vnder a Iuniper tree, and desired for his soule that he might dye, and sayde: It is nowe enough O Lorde, take my soule, for I am not better then my fathers.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 And nowe O Lorde, take I beseche thee my lyfe from me: for it is better for me to dye, then to lyue.
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 That my soule wisheth rather to perishe and die, then my bones to remayne. 16 I can see no remedy, I shall liue no more: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.
  • Job 19:21 : 21 Haue pitie vpon me, haue pitie vpon me, O ye my friendes, for the hande of God hath touched me.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah.
  • Isa 48:10-13 : 10 Beholde I haue purged thee, yet not as siluer, I haue chosen thee in the fire of affliction. 11 And that only for myne owne sake, yea euen for myne owne sake wyll I do this: or els what dishonour woulde they do to my name? surely I wyll not geue my glorie vnto another. 12 Hearken vnto me O Iacob, and Israel whom I haue called: I am euen he that is, I am the first and the last. 13 My hande hath layde the foundation of the earth, and my ryght hande hath spanned ouer the heauens: assoone as I call them, they stande together.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And when the sunne rose, God prepared a seruent east winde, and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionas that he fainted: and wished vnto his soule, that he might dye, and saide, It is better for me to dye, then to lyue.
  • Rev 9:6 : 6 And in those dayes shall men seke death, and shall not fynde it, and shall desire to dye, and death shall flee from them.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes? 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures: 22 Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue,
  • Num 11:14-15 : 14 I am not able to beare all this people alone, seyng it is to heauie for me. 15 If thou deale thus with me, kyll me I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, yt I see not my wretchednesse.