"That I were"

1. 2 Sam. 15: 4
     4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
2. Job 29: 2
     2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
3. Alma 29: 1, 7
     1 O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the trump of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto every people!
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     7 Why should I desire that I were an angel, that I could speak unto all the ends of the earth?