Jonah:4

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* But it displeased Jonah exceedingly , and he was angry . * And he prayed unto the LORD , and said : 'I pray Thee , O LORD , was not this my saying , when I was yet in mine own country ? Therefore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish ; for I knew that Thou art a gracious God , and compassionate , long - suffering , and abundant in mercy , and repentest Thee of the evil . * Therefore now , O LORD , take , I beseech Thee , my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than to live .' * And the LORD said : 'Art thou greatly angry ?' * Then 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 . * 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 evil . So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd . * But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day , and it smote the gourd , that it withered . * And it came to pass , when the sun arose , that God prepared a vehement east wind ; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah , that he fainted , and requested for himself that he might die , and said : 'It is better for me to die than to live .' * And God said to Jonah : 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd ?' And he said : 'I am greatly angry , even unto death .' * And the LORD said : 'Thou hast had 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 ; * and should not I have pity on 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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