Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

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Bible References

Kill me

1 Kings 19:4
And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers."
Job 3:20
"Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?
Job 6:8
"O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for!
Job 7:15
that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.
Jonah 4:3
Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."
Philippians 1:20
as I heartily look for and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed: but that with all confidence, as always in times past, even so now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be through life, or else death.
James 1:4
and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing.

Let me not

Jeremiah 15:18
Shall my heaviness endure forever? Are my plagues then so great, that they may never be healed? Wilt thou be as a water that faileth, and cannot continue?"
Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore came I forth of my mother's womb? To have experience of labour and sorrow? And to lead my life with shame?
Zephaniah 3:15
For the LORD hath taken away thy punishment, and turned back thine enemies. The king of Israel, even the LORD himself is with thee: so that thou needest no more to fear any misfortune.

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Deuteronomy 1:12
'How,' said I, 'can I myself alone bear the cumbrance, charge, and strife that is among you?