26 Bible Verses about Desire For Death

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

Cursed is the day in which I was born: do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad. Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and did not repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;read more.
because he did not kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

He said to me, 'Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.'

"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me.

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

Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us.' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'

Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them," says the LORD of hosts.

Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt. or would that we had died in this wilderness.

The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD.

The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom. My son, my son Absalom. I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son."

who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us." and the hills, "Fall on us."

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that leaders and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.