American Standard Version
"Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. "
— Jonah 4:3, American Standard 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, 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 angry.
And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
Then 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 shade, till he might see what would become of the city.
And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.