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Jonah Chapter 4

Jonah, complaining at God’s mercy, is reprimanded


4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
4:2 And he prayed to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, and said, Please, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, wasn’t this my assertion, when I was yet in my own country? For that reason I hurried to flee to Tarshish: for I knew that You are a gracious EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here
, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who subsides from doing harm.
4:3 So now, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, please, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4:4 Then YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
said, Are you so deeply grieved?
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 shade, until he might see what would happen in the city.
4:6 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
God prepared a leafy plant, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to relieve him from his discomfort. So Jonah rejoiced over of the leafy plant.
4:7 But God prepared a worm at dawn of the next day, and it attacked the leafy plant and it dried up.
4:8 And it so happened, when the sun rose, that God prepared a scorching east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he felt fainted, and asked to die, and he said, It is better for me to die than to live.
4:9 And God said to Jonah, Why are you so grieved over a leafy plant? And he said, I am greatly grieved to death.
4:10 Then YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
said, have you had pity on the leafy plant, for the which you haven’t labored, or made it grow; it lived one night, and perished in a night:
4:11 And shouldn’t I have pity on Nineveh, that great city, are more than one hundred twenty thousand men that can’t discern between [the] right hand [and the] left [hand]; and many cattle as well?

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