Jonah 4:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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High concordance with source wording
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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Eccl 7:1 : 1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Job 6:8-9 : 8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
1 Cor 9:15 : 15 But I have used none of these things : neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
Phil 1:21-25 : 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
Job 3:20-21 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Num 11:15 : 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Num 20:3 : 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Kgs 19:4
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4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Jonah 4:2
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2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Job 7:15-16
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76%
15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Num 11:15
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15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Jonah 4:4
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4Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
Jonah 4:8-9
2 verses
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8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
2 Sam 1:9
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9He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
Ps 39:13
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13O spare me, that I may recover strength{H8686)}, before I go hence{H8799)}, and be no more.
Job 6:8-9
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8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 10:20
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20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Ps 116:3-4
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3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
4Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Jonah 1:14
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14Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
Job 13:14-15
2 verses
73%
14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job 10:1
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1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Lam 1:20
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20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Isa 38:15-16
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15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
Jonah 2:3-4
2 verses
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3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Job 17:1
72%
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Ps 143:3-4
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3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Ps 6:4
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4Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
Ps 31:9-10
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9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Ps 9:13
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13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Ps 55:4
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4My heart is sore pained{H8799)} within me: and the terrors of death are fallen{H8804)} upon me.
Job 10:18
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18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Ps 41:4
71%
4I said{H8804)}, LORD, be merciful{H8798)} unto me: heal{H8798)} my soul; for I have sinned{H8804)} against thee.
1 Kgs 18:9
71%
9And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
Ps 88:3
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3For my soul is full{H8804)} of troubles: and my life draweth nigh{H8689)} unto the grave.
Job 14:13
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13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 30:23
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23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Ps 39:4
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4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know{H8799)} how frail I am.
Ps 40:13
71%
13Be pleased{H8798)}, O LORD, to deliver{H8687)} me: O LORD, make haste{H8798)} to help me.
Ps 13:3
71%
3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Isa 38:10-12
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10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Job 7:21
70%
21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Jonah 1:12
70%
12And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Ps 142:5
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5I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Lam 3:18
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18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Jer 37:20
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20Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Ps 39:10
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10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed{H8804)} by the blow of thine hand.