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 than
sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and
their left hand; and also much cattle?
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