God's New Revelations

The Prophet Jonah

King James Version 1769 including Apocrypha

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- Chapter 4 -

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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?(a)
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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, 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.(b) (c)
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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 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.(d)
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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.(e) (f)
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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:(g) (h)
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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?

Footnotes

(a)4:4 Doest…: or, Art thou greatly angry?
(b)4:6 gourd: or, palmcrist: Heb. Kikajon
(c)4:6 was…: Heb. rejoiced with great joy
(d)4:8 vehement: or, silent
(e)4:9 Doest…: or, Art thou greatly angry?
(f)4:9 I do well…: or, I am greatly angry
(g)4:10 had pity: or, spared
(h)4:10 came…: Heb. was the son of the night