1: But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very
angry. |
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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. |
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4: Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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11: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are
more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their
right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? |