1 And it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry? 5 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, till he might see what would become of the city. 6 And Jehovah Elohim prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his trouble. And Jonah was exceeding glad because 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 arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might 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, unto death. 10 And Jehovah said, Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Jonah 4 Darby Translation
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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
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