Jonah 4
1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest of the evil. 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? ▼▼Doest...: or, Art thou greatly angry?
5So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. 6And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. ▼▼gourd: or, palmcrist: Heb. Kikajon
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▼▼was...: Heb. rejoiced with great joy
7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8And it came to pass, when the sun rose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. ▼▼vehement: or, silent
9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death. ▼▼Doest...: or, Art thou greatly angry?
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▼▼I do well...: or, I am greatly angry
10Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: ▼▼had pity: or, spared
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▼▼came...: Heb. was the son of the night
11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than an hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also many cattle?
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