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1 | But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. |
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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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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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4 | Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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