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 Jon 4:1 |
¶ | But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. |
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Jon 4:2 |
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. | |
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Jon 4:3 |
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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Jon 4:4 |
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? | |
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Jon 4:5 |
¶ | 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. |
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Jon 4:6 |
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. | |
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Jon 4:7 |
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. | |
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Jon 4:8 |
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. | |
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Jon 4:9 |
¶ | 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. |
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Jon 4:10 |
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: | |
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Jon 4:11 |
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? |
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Jonah - Chapter 4
   
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