Numbers 11:15
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15 (A)So if You are going to deal with me this way, please kill me now, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my misery.”
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
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14 Cursed be the (A)day when I was born;
May the day when my mother gave birth to me not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news
To my father, saying,
“A [a](B)boy has been born to you!”
And made him very happy.
16 But may that man be like the cities
Which the Lord (C)overthrew without [b]relenting,
And may he hear an (D)outcry in the morning
And [c]an alarm for war at noon;
17 Because he did not (E)kill me [d]before birth,
So that my mother would have been my grave,
And her womb forever pregnant.
18 Why did I ever come out of the womb
To (F)look at trouble and sorrow,
So that my (G)days have been spent in (H)shame?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 20:15 Lit male child
- Jeremiah 20:16 Lit being sorry
- Jeremiah 20:16 Or a trumpet blast
- Jeremiah 20:17 Lit from the womb
Jonah 4:3
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3 So now, Lord, please (A)take my [a]life from me, for death is (B)better to me than life.”
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- Jonah 4:3 Lit soul
Jonah 4:8
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8 And when the sun came up God designated a scorching (A)east wind, and the (B)sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint, and he begged with all his soul to die, saying, “(C)Death is better to me than life!”
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