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But it displeasedJonahexceedingly*, 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 fledbefore unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a graciousGod, and merciful,slow to anger, and of greatkindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
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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 LORDGodprepared 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.
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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that Godprepared a vehementeastwind; and the sunbeat 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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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*:
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And should not I spareNineveh, that greatcity, wherein aremore than sixscore*thousandpersons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also muchcattle?