But it
displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very
angry.
02 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.
03 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee,
my life from me; for it is better for me to die
than to live.
04 Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be
angry?
05 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.
06 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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07 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose
the next day, and it smote the gourd that it
withered.
08 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.
09 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.
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:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great
city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand
persons that cannot discern between their right
hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
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