OT-PROPHET-MINOR.filter - rsv better:

rsv@Hosea:2:7 @ She shall pursue her lovers, but not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, `I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.'

rsv@Amos:6:2 @ Pass over to Calneh, and see; and thence go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,

rsv@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live."

rsv@Jonah:4:8 @ When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

rsv@Nahum:3:8 @ Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?