Jonah 4
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
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And he prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'I pray Thee, O LORD, was not this my saying,
when I was yet in mine own country? Therefore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish; for
I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and compassionate, long- suffering, and abundant
in mercy, and repentest Thee of the evil.
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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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And the LORD said: 'Art thou greatly angry?'
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Then 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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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 evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad
because of the gourd.
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But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd,
that it withered.
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And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and
the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that
he might die, and said: 'It is better for me to die than to live.'
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And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'I am
greatly angry, even unto death.'
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And the LORD said: 'Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured,
neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night;
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and should not I have pity on 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?'