“Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.””
— WEB
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.”
— KJV
“Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
— ASV
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Commentary
Jonah's impatience of life under disappointed hopes of Israel's reformation through the destruction of Nineveh, is like that of Elijah at his plan for reforming Israel (1Ki. 18:1-46) failing through Jezebel ().
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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