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1 | But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
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2 | He prayed to Yahweh, and said, 'Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and you repent of the evil.
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3 | Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.'
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4 | Yahweh said, 'Is it right for you to be angry?'
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5 | Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
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6 | Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the gourd.
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7 | But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on vine, so that it withered.
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8 | It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head , so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, 'It is better for me to die than to live.'
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9 | God said to Jonah, 'Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?' He said, 'I am right to be angry, even to death.'
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10 | Yahweh said, 'You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
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11 | Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?'
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