Jonah 4:8
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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Cross references
- Psalm 121:6 The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
- Jonah 4:3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Ezekiel 19:12 But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.