Translations
But Elijah walked on alone into the wilderness, a full day's journey, and sat beneath a lone broom tree. He begged for death: "It is enough, Yahweh — take my life, for I am no better than those who came before me."
He went a day's journey into the wilderness and sat under a broom-tree. He asked that his nephesh might die: "Enough! Now, YHWH, take my nephesh — I am no better than my fathers."
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
