| 4:1 | But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 4:4 | Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 4:7 | But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. |
| 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. |
| 4:9 | And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. |
| 4:10 | Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: |
| 4:11 | And should not I spare 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? |
| 4:11 | 何況這尼尼微大城、其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二萬多人、並有許多牲畜、我豈能不愛惜呢。 |
| 4:11 | 何况这尼尼微大城，其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二万多人，并有许多牲畜。我岂能不爱惜呢。 |
| jon:1:2 | Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. |
| jon:3:2 | Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. |
| jon:3:3 | So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. |
| 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. |
| deu:1:39 | Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. |
| psm:36:6 | Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. |
| psm:145:9 | The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. |
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