Jonah 4:3
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Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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.And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Hebrew words
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- Numbers 20:3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
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