26 Bible Verses about Desire For Death

In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me. Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him! May that man be like the cities that the Lord destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.read more.
For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother's womb my grave forever. Why did I ever come forth from my mother's womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

He said to me, 'Stand over me and finish me off! I'm very dizzy, even though I'm still alive.'

"Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!"

When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah's head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said, "I would rather die than live!"

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'

However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived," says the Lord who rules over all.

to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.

The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this desert to kill this whole assembly with hunger!"

And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

The people contended with Moses, saying, "If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, "My son, Absalom! My son, my son, Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!"

who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last."

The high places of the "House of Wickedness" will be destroyed; it is the place where Israel sins. Thorns and thistles will grow up over its altars. Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" and to the hills, "Fall on us!"

Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

My enemies ask this cruel question about me, 'When will he finally die and be forgotten?'

For my enemies talk about me; those waiting for a chance to kill me plot my demise.

You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don't matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, it would be all right with you.