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