Jonah · Bible in Basic English
Jonah 4 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Jonah is not in PT1904.
1 But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.
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2 And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.
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3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
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4 And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?
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5 Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.
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6 And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.
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7 But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.
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8 Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
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9 And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.
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10 And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;
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11 And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?
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Cross references (10)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jonah 4:9; Luke 15:28; Matthew 20:15; Jonah 4:4; Luke 7:39
- 2 Psalm 86:15; Exodus 34:6–7; Numbers 14:18–19; Joel 2:13–14; Psalm 145:8
- 3 1 Kings 19:4; Ecclesiastes 7:1; Jeremiah 20:14–18; Numbers 11:15; Numbers 20:3
- 4 Matthew 20:15; Jonah 4:9; Psalm 106:32–33; Micah 6:3; James 1:19–20
- 5 1 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 57:17; 1 Kings 19:13; Jeremiah 17:15–16; Genesis 19:27–28
- 6 Psalm 103:10–14; Esther 5:9; Luke 10:20; 1 Corinthians 7:30; Jonah 1:17
- 7 Joel 1:12; Psalm 90:5–6; Isaiah 40:6–8; Job 1:21; Psalm 102:10
- 8 Psalm 121:6; Jonah 4:3; Ezekiel 19:12; Isaiah 49:10; Revelation 3:19
- 9 Judges 16:16; Job 5:2; Genesis 4:5–14; Job 40:4–5; Job 18:4
- 11 Matthew 18:33; Luke 15:28–32; Psalm 36:6; Jonah 1:2; Psalm 145:8–9
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences