Jonah:4

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* But it displeased Jonah exceedingly ; and he was wroth . * And he prayed unto the Lord , and said , I pray thee , O Lord , was not this my word , while I was yet in my own country ? Therefore made I haste to fly unto Tharshish ; for I knew that thou art a gracious God , and merciful , long –suffering , and abundant in kindness , and repentant of the evil . * And now , O Lord , take , I pray thee , my soul from me ; because it is better for me to die , than to live . * And the Lord said , Art thou very wroth ? * Now Jonah was gone out of the city , and dwelt on the east side of the city ; and he had made himself there a booth , and sat under it in the shade , till he should see what would become of the city . * And the Lord God made ready a gourd , and it grew up over Jonah , to be a shade over his head , to relieve him from his affliction . And Jonah rejoiced because of the gourd exceedingly . * But God made ready a worm when the morning dawned on the morrow , and it smote the gourd that it withered . * And it came to pass , when the sun arose , that God made ready a hot east wind ; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah , that he became faint ; and he wished for himself to die , and said , It is better for me to die than to live . * And God said unto Jonah , Art thou very wroth for the gourd ? And he said , I am very wroth , even unto death . * And the Lord said , Thou wouldst have spared the gourd , for which thou hadst not labored , neither hadst thou made it grow ; which came up in one night , and perished in one night ; * And shall I not spare Nineveh , that great city , wherein are more than twelve times ten thousand persons , who know not how to discern between their right hand and their left hand , and also much cattle ?

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