Bible, King James Version
Jonah
Jonah.4
[1] But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very
angry.
[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.
[3] Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life
from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
[4] Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
[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.
[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.
[7] But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next
day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
[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.
[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.
[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 than sixscore thousand persons that cannot
discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also
much cattle?
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