Jonah 4
Jonah's
Displeasure |
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and
he was very angry.
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And he prayed unto 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 unto Tarshish: for I knew that
thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of
great kindness, Ex. 34.6 and repentest thee of the evil.
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Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it
is better for me to die than to live.
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Then said the LORD,
Doest thou well to be angry?
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So 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.
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And the LORD God
prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it
might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So
Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
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But God prepared a worm when the morning
rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it
withered.
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And it came to pass, when the sun did
arise, 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.
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And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to
be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
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Then said the LORD,
Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not
labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and
perished in a night:
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and should not I spare Nin'eveh, that
great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that
cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
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