Jonah 4:8
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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- Psalm 121:6 The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
- Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Ezekiel 19:12 But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.