Book 19 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - JONAH - Chapter 004
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry
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And he prayed unto HaShem, and said: 'I pray Thee, O HaShem,
was not this my saying, when I was yet in mine own country? Therefore I fled
beforehand unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious G-d, and
compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and repentest Thee of the
evil
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Therefore now, O HaShem, take, I beseech Thee, my life from
me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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And HaShem said: 'Art thou greatly angry?
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Then 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
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And HaShem G-d 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
evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd
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But G-d prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day,
and it smote the gourd, that it withered
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And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that G-d prepared
a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, 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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And G-d said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the
gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.
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And HaShem said: 'Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for
which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night,
and perished in a night
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and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city,
wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between
their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?
Book 19 : NEVIIM - TREISAR - JONAH - Chapter 004
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