Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.
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 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."
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.
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 And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my saying when I was still in my land? On account of this I fled before to Tarshish. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity. 3 And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life. 4 And Jehovah said, Is anger rightly kindled in you?
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Job 6:8-9
Oh that I might have my desire, and that God would grant the thing that I long for!
Job 7:15-16
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life.
Numbers 11:15
And if You are going to part this way with me, I beg You to kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and let me not see my misery.
Numbers 20:3
And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died when our brothers died before Jehovah!
Job 3:20-21
Why is light given to one who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed is the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Jonah 4:8
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.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it is good for me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.
Philippians 1:21-25
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.