Thematic Bible: Sought as a relief from trouble sought


Thematic Bible



And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper 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 not better than my fathers.

Who long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.