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He displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was annoyed. |
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And he prayed to the Lord and said, O Lord! I did not speak it when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and pity on the affliction. |
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And now, Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live. |
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And Jehovah said, Doest thou so much?
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And 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 shade to see what would happen to the city. |
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And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and it rose over Jonah, that was upon his head shadow, to deliver him from his grief; Jonah was exceeding glad because of the plant. |
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But God, that the next day at dawn the worm gourd, and it withered away. |
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When the sun rose, 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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And God said to Jonah, Are you so very angry for the gourd? He said, very angry, even unto death. |
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Then the Lord said: Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow, which in one night and rose in one night and disappeared: |
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And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that can not discern between their right hand from their left, and also much cattle? |
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