Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”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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That reaches back to this verse
In parallel with (this verse)1 Kings 19:4
Jonah asks God to take his life too, a prophet at the end of himself right after a great work.
“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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”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.”