Jonah 44JonahJonah's anger and God's compassionunfoldingWord® Literal Text

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1. Jonah’s Anger at the LORD’s Compassion

2. 1ULTBut it made evil to Jonah a great evil, and it burned to him.BSBBSB: Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
3. 2ULTSo he prayed to Yahweh and said,“Ah! Yahweh, was this not my word while I was in my country? Because of this I acted beforehand to flee to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, long of nostrils and abundant in covenant faithfulness, and one who relents from evil.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.
4. 3ULTSo now, Yahweh, I beg you, take my life from me, for my death is better than my life.”BSBBSB: And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
5. 4ULTAnd Yahweh said,“Is it right that it burns to you?”BSBBSB: But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
6. 5ULTThen Jonah went out from the city and sat down facing the city from the east. And there he made a shelter for himself, and he sat under it in the shade until he might see what would be within the city.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.
7. 6ULTThen Yahweh God appointed a plant and caused it to grow up from over Jonah to be a shade over his head in order to rescue him from his evil. And Jonah rejoiced with great rejoicing because of the plant.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.
8. 7ULTThen God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn of the next day; and it attacked the plant, and it withered.BSBBSB: When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
9. 8ULTAnd as soon as the rising of the sun happened, then God appointed a hot east wind; and the sun beat on the head of Jonah, and he became faint. Then he asked his spirit to die and said,“My death is better than my life.”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.”
10. 9ULTThen God said to Jonah,“Is it right that it burns to you about the plant?” And he said,“It is right that it burns to me, even as far as death.”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!”
11. 10ULTThen Yahweh said,“You, you feel troubled about the plant, for which you did no work, nor did you make it grow; it came as a son of a night, and it perished as a son of a night.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.
12. 11ULTSo I, should I not feel troubled about Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120, 000 people who do not know between their right hand to their left hand, and many animals?”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?”