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Jonah 4

CHAPTER 4 Jonah Grieved

1 And Jonah was grieved [²distress ¹with great], and was confounded. 2 And he prayed to the lord, and he said, O lord, Were not these my words still being in my land? Because of this I thought beforehand to flee unto Tarshish. Because I knew that you are merciful and pitying, lenient and full of mercy, and one to change his mind over the evils. 3 And now, master, O lord, take my soul from me, for it is good for me to die than live! 4 And the lord said, Are [²exceedingly ³grieved ¹you]? 5 And Jonah went forth from out of the city, and he sat before the city, and he made for himself there a tent, and he sat down underneath it, unto of which he could look over what will be of the city.

The Gourd Shades Jonah

6 And [³assigned ¹the lord ²God] a gourd, and it ascended above the head of Jonah, to be shading up above his head, to shade him from his hurts. And Jonah rejoiced over the gourd [²joy ¹with great]. 7 And God assigned a worm for early morning the next day, and it struck the gourd, and it was dried up. 8 And it came to pass at the same time as the rising of the sun, and God assigned [²wind ¹a burning] to burn; and [³struck ¹the ²sun] upon the head of Jonah, and he became faint-hearted, and resigned of his life, and said, Better for me to die than live. 9 And [²said ¹God] to Jonah, Are [²exceedingly ³grieved ¹you] over the gourd? And he said, [²exceedingly ³grieved ¹I am] unto death. 10 And the lord said, You indeed spared for the gourd, for which you suffered no hardship over it, nor nourished it; which came up during the night, and [²during ³the night ¹perished]. 11 But I, shall I not spare for Nineveh the [²city ¹great], in which dwells in it more than twelve myriads of men, who do not know their right hand or their left, and [²cattle ¹much]?