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Jonah 4

Jonah's Displeasure Rebuked

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But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became  aangry.

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He  aprayed to the LORD and said, "Please LORD, was not this  1what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore  2in order to forestall this I  bfled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a  cgracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

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"Therefore now, O LORD, please  atake my  1life from me, for death is  bbetter to me than life."

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The LORD said, "Do you have good reason to be angry?"

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Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of  1it. There he made a shelter for himself and  asat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city.

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So the LORD God appointed a  1plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was  2extremely happy about the  1plant.

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But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it  awithered.

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When the sun came up God appointed a scorching  aeast wind, and the  bsun beat down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, " cDeath is better to me than life."

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Then God said to Jonah, "Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "I have good reason to be angry, even to death."

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Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which  1came up overnight and perished  2overnight.

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"Should I not  ahave compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not  bknow the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many  canimals?"



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