Jonah 44JonahJonah's anger and God's compassionChinese, Mandarin

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1. 1CMNCBT這事令約拿十分不悅，非常惱怒。BSBBSB: Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
2. 2CMNCBT他向耶和華禱告說：「耶和華啊，我在家鄉的時候豈不早就說過你會這樣做嗎？我知道你是一位有恩典、好憐憫的上帝，不輕易發怒，充滿慈愛，不忍心降災，所以我才急速逃往他施。BSBBSB: So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
3. 3CMNCBT耶和華啊，求你收回我的性命吧，我死了比活著還好！」BSBBSB: And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4. 4CMNCBT耶和華對他說：「你這樣大發脾氣合理嗎？」BSBBSB: But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
5. 5CMNCBT約拿出城，在城東為自己搭了一個棚，坐在棚下蔭涼處，要看看尼尼微城究竟會怎樣。BSBBSB: Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
6. 6CMNCBT耶和華上帝安排了一棵蓖麻迅速地長起來，為約拿遮蔭，使他的頭免受日曬。約拿因有這棵蓖麻而非常歡喜。BSBBSB: So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
7. 7CMNCBT第二天黎明的時候，上帝卻安排了一條蟲來咬這棵蓖麻，蓖麻就枯萎了。BSBBSB: When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
8. 8CMNCBT太陽出來的時候，上帝颳起燥熱的東風，烈日把約拿曬得發昏，他就再次求死說：「我死了比活著還好！」BSBBSB: As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9. 9CMNCBT上帝對約拿說：「你為這棵蓖麻大發脾氣合理嗎？」約拿回答說：「我就是氣死了也合理。」BSBBSB: Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
10. 10CMNCBT耶和華說：「這棵蓖麻不是你種的，也不是你栽培的，它在一夜之間長成，又在一夜之間死去，你尚且如此愛惜，BSBBSB: But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
11. 11CMNCBT我怎能不愛惜這尼尼微大城呢？城中單是連左右手都分不清的人就有十二萬多，還有許多的牲畜。」BSBBSB: So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”