Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah's impatience of life under disappointed hopes of Israel's reformation through the destruction of Nineveh is like that of Elijah at his plan for reforming Israel (1 Kings 18:1-46) failing through Jezebel (1 Kings 19:4).