Therefore now, O Lord, I ask You, take my life from me – He would rather die than see the evil that was to come upon his country. Impatient …

Take, I beseech you. —We naturally refer to the history of Elijah for a similar weariness and disgust of life. (Compare a…

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not…

We see here how angry Jonah was in his zeal, for this prayer cannot certainly be ascribed to his faith, as some think, who say that Jonah took a fl…

Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech you, my life from me, &c.] Or, "my soul" ^F24. This, as Drusius remarks,…

What all the saints rejoice in and praise, Jonah makes a subject of complaint against God; as if showing mercy were an imperfection of the divine n…