Jonah 4 (TRV)

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* 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
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* 2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, “I ask You O LORD, ''was'' not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled beforehand to Tarshish; because I knew that You ''are'' a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, who repents from doing calamity.
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* 3 Therefore now, O LORD, please I beg You, take my life from me, because ''it is'' better for me to die than to live!”
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* 4 Then the LORD said, “Are you right to be angry?”
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* 5 So Jonah went out of the city, sat on the east side of the city, and there he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
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* 6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd plant and made ''it'' to come up over Jonah, that it might be shade over his head to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly grateful for the gourd plant.
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* 7 But God prepared a worm, when morning rose the next day and it destroyed the plant so that it withered.
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* 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he became faint, and he wished in himself to die, and said, “''It is'' better for me to die than to live.”
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* 9 Then God said to Jonah, “Are you right to be angry about the gourd plant?” And he said, “It is right for me to be angry, ''even'' to death!”
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* 10 Then the LORD said, “You have had pity on the gourd plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night,
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* 11 but should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and ''also'' much cattle?”

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  • 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
  • 2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, “I ask You O LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled beforehand to Tarshish; because I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, who repents from doing calamity.
  • 3 Therefore now, O LORD, please I beg You, take my life from me, because it is better for me to die than to live!”
  • 4 Then the LORD said, “Are you right to be angry?”
  • 5 So Jonah went out of the city, sat on the east side of the city, and there he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
  • 6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd plant and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be shade over his head to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly grateful for the gourd plant.
  • 7 But God prepared a worm, when morning rose the next day and it destroyed the plant so that it withered.
  • 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he became faint, and he wished in himself to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
  • 9 Then God said to Jonah, “Are you right to be angry about the gourd plant?” And he said, “It is right for me to be angry, even to death!”
  • 10 Then the LORD said, “You have had pity on the gourd plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night,
  • 11 but should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?”
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