Jonah 4
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
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And he prayed to YHWH, and said, I pray you, O YHWH, was not this my saying, when
I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you
are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and
repent you of the evil.
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Therefore now, O YHWH, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for
me to die than to live.
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And YHWH said, Do you well to be 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 shade, till he might see what would become of
the city.
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And YHWH God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be
a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. 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 sultry 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, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well
to be angry, even to death.
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And YHWH said, You have had regard for the gourd, for which you have not labored,
neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
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and should not I have regard for 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?