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“1 ¶ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2 And
he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this
my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto
Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow
to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it
is] better for me to die than to live. 4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou
well to be angry?”
“5 ¶ So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the
city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till
he might see what would become of the city. 6 And the LORD God prepared
a gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow
over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding
glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the
next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8 And it came to
pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind;
and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in
himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live. 9
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he
said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death. 10 Then said the LORD,
Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured,
neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a
night: 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are
more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their
right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?” (Jonah 4:1-11
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