8 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching feast wind, gand the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he hwas faint. And he asked that he might die and said, c“It is better for me to die than to live.”
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Jeremiah 18:17
Like the east wind I will scatter them
before the enemy.
I will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.”
Psalm 121:6
The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
Amos 8:13
“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
shall faint for thirst.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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