| Chapter 4
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| 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. |
| 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? |
