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Jonah 4:3
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Jonah 4:3 · Berean Standard Bible
Jonah 4:3 in other translations
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Therefore now, Lord, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
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In context
1 Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
2 So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
5 Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
6 So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
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