Jonah
Chapter 4
( 4 Chapters )
Jonas
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( 10 Verses )
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And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was angry:
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And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.
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And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.
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And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?
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Then Jonas went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of the city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall the city.
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But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.
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And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.
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And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.
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And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.
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And shall I not spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons, that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
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