Jonah 4 (New American Standard)

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Jonah's Displeasure Rebuked

1 But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became ¹angry. 2 He ²prayed to the LORD and said, "Please LORD, was not this ^awhat I said while I was still in my own country ? Therefore ^bin order to forestall this I ³fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a ⁴gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. 3 "Therefore now, O LORD, please ⁵take my ^clife from me, for death is ⁶better to me than life." 4 The LORD said, "Do you have good reason to be angry ?" 5 Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of ^dit. There he made a shelter for himself and ⁷sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city. 6 So the LORD God appointed a ^eplant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was ^fextremely happy about the ^gplant. 7 But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it ⁸withered. 8 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching ⁹east wind, and the ¹⁰sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, "¹¹Death is better to me than life." 9 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." 10 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 ^hcame up overnight and perished ⁱovernight . 11 "Should I not ¹²have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not ¹³know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many ¹⁴animals ?"

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