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Jonah 4

¹But it displeased Jonah very much, and he was angry. ²And he prayed to YHWH, and said, "I pray thee, O YHWH, was this not what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I hurried up to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and you turn from doing evil (in the sense of judgment). ³Therefore now, O YHWH, take, I ask you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." ⁴And YHWH said, "Do you do well to be angry?" ⁵Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made a booth for himself, and sat under it in the shade, so he could see what would happen to the city. ⁶And YHWH God prepared a gourd, and made it grow up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his bad situation. So Jonah was very glad because of the gourd. ⁷But God prepared a worm when the morning came the next day, and it struck the gourd, so it withered. ⁸And it happened when the sun rose, that God prepared a hot east wind; and the sun beat on the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and he wished that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live." ⁹And God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the gourd?" And he said, "I do well to be angry, even to death." ¹⁰And YHWH said, "You have regard for the gourd, for which you have not labored, neither did you make it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: ¹¹and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than 120,000 persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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