American King James Version
"Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. ¶ "
— Jonah 4:3, American King James Version
“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, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. ”
“Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."”
“So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!””
“And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.”
“So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.”
“Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent you of the evil.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. ¶
Then said the LORD, Do you well to be angry?
So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.