Verse 3

And now o LORDE, take my life fro me (I beseke the) for I had rather dye then lyue.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he him selfe wente a daies iourney in to ye wyldernes, & came in, & sat him downe vnder a Iuniper tre, & wy?shed vnto his soule yt he mighte dye, & sayde: It is now ynough LORDE, take my soule, for I am no better then my fathers.
  • Eccl 7:1 : 1 A good name is more worth then a precious oyntment, and the daye of death is better the ye daye of byrth.
  • Job 6:8-9 : 8 O that I might haue my desyre: O yt God wolde graunte me the thynge, that I longe for: 9 That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 that my soule wyssheth rather to be hanged, and my bones to be deed. 16 I can se no remedy, I shall lyue nomore: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vayne
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the daye, wherein I was borne: vnhappie be ye daye, where in my mother brought me forth. 15 Cursed be the man, that brought my father the tidinges, to make him glad, sayenge: thou hast gotten a sonne. 16 Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities which ye LORDE turned vpside downe (when he had longe herde the wicked rumoure of them) 17 because he slewe me not, as soone as I came out off my mothers wombe, and because my mother was not my graue hirselff, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her. 18 Wherfore came I forth off my mothers wombe? To haue experience of laboure and sorowe? and to lede my life with shame?
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And when the Sone was vp God prepared a feruent east wynde: and the Sonne bete ouer the heade of Ionas, that he faynted agayne, and wy?shed vnto his soule, that he might dye, and sayde: It is better for me to dye, the to lyue.
  • 1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Nether wryte I therof, that it shulde be done so vnto me: for I had rather dye, the that eny man shulde brynge my reioysinge to naughte.
  • Phil 1:21-25 : 21 For Christ is to me life, & death is to me auautage. 22 But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what 23 I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me) 24 but to abyde in the flesh is more nedefull for you. 25 And this am I sure of, that I shal abyde, and contynue with you all, for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre faith,
  • Job 3:20-21 : 20 Wherfore is the light geuen, to him that is in mysery? and life vnto them, that haue heuy hertes? 21 (Which longe for death, and it commeth not: for yf they might fynde their graue,
  • Num 11:15 : 15 And yf thou wylt deale thus wt me: O kyll me then, yf I haue founde fauoure in thy sight, that I se not my wrechednesse.
  • Num 20:3 : 3 & the people chode with Moses, & sayde: Wolde God yt we had perished, whan oure brethre perished before the LORDE.