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| 4 | Jonah |
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. | Jonah's anger & God's mercy. Jon.4.1-11 |
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And he prayed to the LORD and said, "I pray thee, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil. | |
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Therefore now, O LORD, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live." | |
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And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?" | |
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Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. | |
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And the LORD God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. | |
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But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered. | |
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When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live." | |
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But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "I do well to be angry, angry enough to die." | |
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And the LORD said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night. | |
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And should not I pity Nin'eveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?" | |
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