26 Bible Verses about Desire For Death

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

"Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

"Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, "A son is born to you," making him very glad. Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,read more.
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great. Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

And he said to me 'Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.'

"Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope,

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."

Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the LORD of hosts.

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

And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.

and the people of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!

And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"

who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us."

"If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die, and his name perish?"

For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together

because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.