Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take, I pray thee, my life from me, - for it were better for me, to die, than, to live.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore now, O Lord, please
King James Version
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Holman Bible
And now, Lord, please take my life from me,
International Standard Version
Therefore, LORD, please kill me, because it's better for me to die than to live!"
A Conservative Version
Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
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.
Amplified
Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Bible in Basic English
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
Darby Translation
And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
Julia Smith Translation
And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.
King James 2000
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"
Modern King James verseion
And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."
NET Bible
So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!"
New Heart English Bible
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Webster
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
World English Bible
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Youngs Literal Translation
And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'
Themes
death » Sought as a relief from trouble sought » Despair lead men to
Despair » Leads men to desire death
Despondency » Instances of » Jonah after he had preached to the ninevites
Jonah » The reluctant missionary » Reveals his bigotry in lamenting the repentance of the ninevites
Prayer » Private, of Christ » Unwise prayers, examples of
Topics
Interlinear
Laqach
Nephesh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jonah 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jonah Is Angry At Yahweh's Compassion
2 So he prayed unto Yahweh, and said - Ah now! Yahweh! Was not, this, my word, while I was yet upon mine own soil? For this cause, did I hasten to flee unto Tarshish, - because I knew that, thou, art a GOD of favour and compassion, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and art grieved over calamity. 3 Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take, I pray thee, my life from me, - for it were better for me, to die, than, to live. 4 Then said Yahweh, Art thou rightly angry?
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4
But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day's journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub, - and asked for his life, that he might die, and said - Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
Better a name, than precious ointment, - and the day of death, than the day of one's birth.
Job 6:8-9
Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!
Job 7:15-16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than these my bones!
Numbers 11:15
But if, in this way, thou art going to deal with me, slay me, I beseech thee, slay, if I have found favour in thine eyes, - and let me not see my grief,
Numbers 20:3
And the people contended with Moses, - and spake saying, Would then we had died a when our brethren died, before Yahweh!
Job 3:20-21
Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul? -
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Accursed, be the day on which I was born, - The day when my mother bare me, let it not be blessed!
Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint, - and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were better for me, to die, than, to live.
1 Corinthians 9:15
I, however, have not used any of these things; and have not written these things, in order that, so it should be done, in my case; for it were, good for me, rather to die than - - my boast, shall, no man, make void!
Philippians 1:21-25
For, unto me - living, is Christ, and, dying, gain.