Jonah:4

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* But it displeased Jonah exceedingly . He was angry ! * He prayed to Jehovah : »I pray to you , O Jehovah , was this what I said , when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish . Because I knew that you are a gracious God . You are merciful , slow to anger , abundant in loving kindness , and one who takes pity over calamity . * »Now , O Jehovah , please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live .« * Jehovah asked him : »Do you have good reason to be angry ?« * Then Jonah went out of the city . He sat on the east side of the city . He made a booth , and sat under it in the shade . He wanted to see what would become of the city . * And Jehovah God prepared a gourd plant . He made it grow up over Jonah . That way it would be a shade over his head . It would deliver him from his disastrous attitude . So Jonah was very glad to have the gourd plant . * The next morning God prepared a worm and it attacked the plant and it withered . * When the sun rose God prepared a sultry east wind . So the sun beat upon the head of Jonah and he grew faint . He requested for himself that he might die . He said : »It is better for me to die than to live !« * However God replied to Jonah : »Do you have good reason to be angry at the plant ?« He said to God : »I have good reason to be angry even unto death .« * Jehovah said : »You have compassion for the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow . It came up overnight and perished in a night . * »Should I not then have regard for Nineveh , that great city , where there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand people that do not know the difference between their right and their left hand , and also many animals ?«

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