If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”
but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”
so that I prefer strangling — death rather than life in this body.
Now if You would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me from the book You have written.”
Why has my pain become unending, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You truly have become like a mirage to me — water that is not reliable.
Why did I come out of the womb to see only struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame?
And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
The Lord has removed your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you; you need no longer fear harm.
But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.