| Chapter 4 |
| 1 | But it displeased Jonah
exceedingly, and he was very angry. |
| 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. |
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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 | Then said the
LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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7 | But God prepared a worm when the
morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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: |
| 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 also much cattle? |
