JONAH 4: 1 – 11

VERSE 1

Jon:4:1: But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

 

 

VERSE 2

Jon:4:2: And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

 

 

 

VERSE 3

Jon:4:3: Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

 

 

 

VERSE 4

Jon:4:4: Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

 

 

 

VERSE 5

Jon:4:5: So 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 6

Jon:4:6: 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 grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

 

 

 

VERSE 7

Jon:4:7: But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

 

 

 

VERSE 8

Jon:4:8: And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

 

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