Jonah 4 (King James Version w/ Apocrypha)
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly , and he was very angry .
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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.
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Therefore now, O LORD, take , I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry ?
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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.
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And the LORD God prepared a gourd,a 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.
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But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered .
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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise , that God prepared a vehementb 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.
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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.
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Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pityc 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 :
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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?
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