^12 (A)Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”

^3 (A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for ^(B)it is better for me to die than to live!”

⁹ So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; ^(A)but they did not heed Moses, because of ^(B)anguish^[a] of spirit and cruel bondage.

⁸ And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, ^(A)“It is better for me to die than to live.”

^21 (A)And they said to them, “Let the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made ^[a]us abhorrent in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

⁹ Now therefore, behold, ^(A)the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the ^(B)oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

¹⁷ Then ^(A)they began to plead with Him to depart from their region.

¹⁸ And when He got into the boat, ^(B)he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him.

⁷ And he cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I ^(A)implore^[a] You by God that You do not torment me.”

²⁴ saying, “Let us alone! ^(A)What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I ^(B)know who You are—the ^(C)Holy One of God!”