26 Bible Verses about Desire For Death

And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

Wherefore shall I not die from the womb? and I came forth from the belly, and I shall expire.

And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see me.

Cursed the day which I was born in it; the day which my mother brought me forth shall not be blessed. Cursed the man who announced to my father, Good news; saying, A son, a male was born to thee; with rejoicing, making him rejoice. And that man being as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and lamented not: and hearing the cry in the morning and the loud noise in time of noon.read more.
Because he killed me not from the womb, and my mother will be to me my grave, and her womb pregnant forever. Wherefore this came I forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, and my days shall be finished with shame?

And he will say to me, Stand now, upon me, and kill me, for perplexity seized me because my soul is yet all in me.

Who will give my asking shall come? and will God give my expectation?

And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off?

Who will give thou wilt hide me in hades? wilt thou cover me till the turning away of thine anger? wilt thou set for me a limit, and wilt thou remember me?

And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.

And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us; and to the hills, Cover us.

And death was chosen above life to all the remnant of those being left from this evil family, in all the places being left where I cast them out there, says Jehovah of armies.

Waiting for death, and it is not; and they will dig more than for hidden treasures;

And I praise the dead already dead more than the living they yet living.

And the sons of Israel will say to them, Who will give to die by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eating bread to satiety? for ye brought us forth to this desert to kill all this convocation with hunger.

And all the children of Israel will murmur against Moses, and against Aaron; and all the assembly will say to them, Would we died in the land of Egypt! or in this desert would that we died!

And they will contend with Moses, and will speak, saying, Would that we died in the dying of our brethren before Jehovah!

And the king will be moved, and he will go up into the upper chamber of the gate and weep: and thus he said in his going, My son Absalom! my son, my son Absalom I who will give my death, me for thee, Absalom my son, my son!

Rejoicing with joy when they find the grave;

And the eyes of the unjust shall be consumed, and flight shall perish from them, and their hope a breathing out of the soul.

And the heights of vanity were destroyed, the sin of Israel: the thorn and weeds shall come up upon their altars; and they said to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall upon us.

If they shall break through into hades, from thence shall my hand take them; and if they shall go up to the heavens, from thence I will bring them down.

Mine enemies will say evil to me: When shall he die, and his name perish?

For mine enemies said to me, and they watching my soul took counsel together,

To love those hating thee, and hating those loving thee, for thou announcedst this day that not to the chiefs and servants: for I knew this day that if Absalom lived and all we this day died, that then it was straight in thine eyes.