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Jonah’s Anger at the Lord’s Compassion
4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was
very angry.
4:2 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, and repentest thee of the evil.
4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life
from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4:4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
4:5 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.
4:6 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.
4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next
day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
4:8 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.
4:9 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.
4:10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd,
for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it
grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city,
wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot
discern between their right hand and their left hand; and
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