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[1]But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. |
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[2]And he prayed unto 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and said: 'I pray Thee, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, was not this my saying, when I was yet in mine own country? Therefore I 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. |
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[3]Therefore now, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.' |
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[4]And 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 said: 'Art thou greatly angry?' |
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[5]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. |
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[6]And 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 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. |
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[7]But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. |
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[8]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.' |
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[9]And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.' |
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[10]And 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 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; |
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[11]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?' |