26 Bible Verses about Desire For Death

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire?

Why then have You brought me from the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me!

Cursed is the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad. And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;read more.
because he did not kill me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?

He said to me again, Please stand over me and kill me, for anguish has come upon me, because all my life is still in me.

Oh that I might have my desire, and that God would grant the thing that I long for!

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!

Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?

And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.

And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

And it happened when the sun shone, God ordained a scorching east wind. And the sun beat on the head of Jonah, so that he fainted. And he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life.

And they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us! And to the hills, Cover us!

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Jehovah of Hosts.

who is waiting for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for treasures?

And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are living now.

And the sons of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the whole congregation said to them, Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or, Oh that we had died in the wilderness!

And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died when our brothers died before Jehovah!

And the king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said this, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would God I had died for you, O Absalom, my son, my son!

They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they can find the grave.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no escape, and their hope shall be like the giving up of the spirit.

Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us.

If they dig into hell, there My hand shall take them. And if they go up to the heavens, I will bring them down from there.

My enemies speak evil of me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?

For my enemies speak against me; and those who watch for my soul plot together,

By loving your enemies and hating those who love you, you have declared today that there are neither commanders nor servants to you. For I know that today if Absalom had lived and all of us had died today, then it would have pleased you very much!