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And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.(A)

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Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts.(A)

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16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,(A)

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30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’(A)

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19 Enter the caves of the rocks
    and the holes of the ground,
from the terror of the Lord
    and from the glory of his majesty,
    when he rises to terrify the earth.(A)

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The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,
    shall be destroyed.
Thorn and thistle shall grow up
    on their altars.
They shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
    and to the hills, “Fall on us.”(A)

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15 so that I would choose strangling
    and death rather than this body.
16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    Let me alone, for my days are a breath.(A)

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20 “Why is light given to one in misery
    and life to the bitter in soul,(A)
21 who long for death, but it does not come,
    and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;(B)
22 who rejoice exceedingly
    and are glad when they find the grave?

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He said to me, ‘Come, stand over me and kill me, for convulsions have seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’

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(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.9 Other ancient authorities lack this sentence