26 Bible Verses about Desire For Death

and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed! Cursed is the man who bore tidings to my father, saying, 'Born to thee hath been a child -- a male,' Making him very glad! Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon.read more.
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during. Why is this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

And he saith unto me, Stand, I pray thee, over me, and put me to death, for seized me hath the arrow, for all my soul is still in me.

O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!

That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better is my death than my life.'

then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --

And chosen is death rather than life By all the remnant who are left of this evil family, In all the remaining places, whither I have driven them, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

and the sons of Israel say unto them, 'Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety -- for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.'

and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, 'O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!

and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, 'And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, 'My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'

Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

And destroyed have been high places of Aven, the sin of Israel. Thorn and bramble go up on their altars, And they have said to hills, Cover us, And to heights, Fall upon us.

If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.

Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth -- his name hath perished!

For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together,

to love thine enemies, and to hate those loving thee, for thou hast declared to-day that thou hast no princes and servants, for I have known to-day that if Absalom were alive, and all of us to-day dead, that then it were right in thine eyes.