Jonah 44JonahJonah's anger and God's compassionBrenton Septuagint

Brenton SeptuagintBerean Standard Bible

1. 1GRCBRENTΚαὶ ἐλυπήθη Ἰωνᾶς λύπην μεγάλην· καὶ συνεχύθη,BSBBSB: Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
2. 2GRCBRENTκαὶ προσεύξατο πρὸς Κύριον, καὶ εἶπεν, Κύριε, οὐχ οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι μου, ἔτι ὄντος μου ἐν τῇ γῇ μου; διατοῦτο προέφθασα τοῦ φυγεῖν εἰς Θαρσὶς, διότι ἔγνων ὅτι σὺ ἐλεήμων καὶ οἰκτίρμων, μακρόθυμος καὶ πολυέλεος, καὶ μετανοῶν ἐπὶ ταῖς κακίαις.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. 3GRCBRENTΚαὶ νῦν, δέσποτα Κύριε, λάβε τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι καλὸν τὸ ἀποθανεῖν με ἢ ζῇν με.BSBBSB: And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4. 4GRCBRENTΚαὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Ἰωνᾶν, εἰ σφόδρα λελύπησαι σύ;BSBBSB: But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
5. 5GRCBRENTΚαὶ ἐξῆλθεν Ἰωνᾶς ἐκ τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἀπέναντι τῆς πόλεως· καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτῷ ἐκεῖ σκηνὴν, καὶ ἐκάθητο ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς, ἕως οὗ ἀπίδῃ τί ἔσται τῇ πόλει.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. 6GRCBRENTΚαὶ προσέταξε Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς κολοκύνθῃ, καὶ ἀνέβη ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ, τοῦ εἶναι σκιὰν ὑπεράνω τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ, τοῦ σκιάζειν αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τῶν κακῶν αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐχάρη Ἰωνᾶς ἐπὶ τῇ κολοκύνθῃ χαρὰν μεγάλην.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. 7GRCBRENTΚαὶ προσέταξεν ὁ Θεὸς σκώληκι ἑωθινῇ τῇ ἐπαυρίον, καὶ ἐπάταξε τὴν κολόκυνθαν, καὶ ἀπεξηράνθη.BSBBSB: When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
8. 8GRCBRENTΚαὶ ἐγένετο ἅμα τῷ ἀνατεῖλαι τὸν ἥλιον, καὶ προσέταξεν ὁ Θεὸς πνεύματι καύσωνι συγκαίοντι, καὶ ἐπάταξεν ὁ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ· καὶ ὠλιγοψύχησε, καὶ ἀπελέγετο τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἶπε, καλόν μοι ἀποθανεῖν με ἢ ζῇν.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. 9GRCBRENTΚαὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς Ἰωνᾶν, εἰ σφόδρα λελύπησαι σὺ ἐπὶ τῇ κολοκύνθῃ; καὶ εἶπε, σφόδρα λελύπημαι ἐγὼ ἕως θανάτου.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. 10GRCBRENTΚαὶ εἶπε Κύριος, σὺ ἐφείσω ὑπὲρ τῆς κολοκύνθης, ὑπὲρ ἧς οὐκ ἐκακοπάθησας ἐπʼ αὐτὴν, καὶ οὐδὲ ἐξέθρεψας αὐτὴν, ἣ ἐγενήθη ὑπὸ νύκτα, καὶ ὑπὸ νύκτα ἀπώλετο·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. 11GRCBRENTἐγὼ δὲ οὐ φείσομαι ὑπὲρ Νινευὴ τῆς πόλεως τῆς μεγάλης, ἐν ᾗ κατοικοῦσι πλείους ἢ δώδεκα μυριάδες ἀνθρώπων, οἵτινες οὐκ ἔγνωσαν δεξιὰν αὐτῶν ἢ ἀριστερὰν αὐτῶν, καὶ κτήνη πολλά;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?”