Jonah 4:1WEB
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
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Jonah 4:1WEB
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Jonah 4:2WEB
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jonah 4:3WEB
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jonah 4:4WEB
Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jonah 4:5WEB
Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
Jonah 4:6WEB
Yahweh God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jonah 4:7WEB
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
Jonah 4:8WEB
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Jonah 4:9WEB
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
Jonah 4:10WEB
Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jonah 4:11WEB
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.