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Jonás 4,1-11
Chapter IIII.
1 Ionah repining at Gods mercy, 4 is reprooued by the type of a Gourd.
1 But it displeased Ionah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed vnto the Lord, and sayd, I pray thee, [ Jon_1:8.] O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? Therefore I fledde before vnto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a [ Exo_34:6; Psa_86:5; Joe_2:13.] gracious God, and mercifull, slow to anger, and of great kindnesse, and repentest thee of the euill.
3 Therefore now, O Lord, Take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die then to liue.
4 Then said the Lord, [ Or, art thou greatly angry?] Doest thou well to be angry?
5 So Ionah went out of the citie, and sate on the East side of the city, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadow, till hee might see what would become of the citie.
6 And the Lord God prepared a [ Or, palmecrist. Hebrew: Kikaion.] gourd, and made it to come vp ouer Ionah, that it might be a shadow ouer his head, to deliuer him from his griefe. So Ionah was [ Hebrew: reioyced with great ioy.] exceeding glad of the gourd.
7 But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
8 And it came to passe when the Sunne did arise, that God prepared a [ Or, silent.] vehement East wind; and the Sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that hee fainted, and wished in himselfe to die, and said, It is better for me to die, then to liue.
9 And God said to Ionah, [ Or, art thou greatly angry?] Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?
[Gods wrath against Idolaters.]
and he said, [ Or, I am greatly angry.] I doe well to be angry, euen vnto death.
10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast [ Or, spared.] had pitie on the gourde, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which [ Hebrew: was the sonne of the night.] came vp in a
[Gods wrath against Idolaters.]
night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineueh that great citie, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons, that cannot discerne betweene their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattell?