Jonah
Chapter Four
1 ¶ But it displeased
Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry.
2 So he prayed to the LORD, and said, "Ah, LORD, was not this what I said
when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for
I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant
in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.
3 "Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better
for me to die than to live!"
4 Then the LORD said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
5 ¶ So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city.
There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might
see what would become of the city.
6 And the LORD God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it
might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very
grateful for the plant.
7 But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged
the plant that it withered.
8 And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind;
and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death
for himself, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
9 Then God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?"
And he said, "It is right for me to be angry, even to death!"
10 But the LORD said, "You have had pity on the plant for which you have
not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.
11 "And should I not pity 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-and much livestock?"
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