Young's Literal Translation

Jonah 3

The Book of Jonah

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Chapter 4

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And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;

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and he prayeth unto Yehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Yehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou art a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

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And now, O Yehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.`

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And Yehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?`

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And Jonah goeth forth from the city, and sitteth on the east of the city, and maketh to himself there a booth, and sitteth under it in the shade, till that he seeth what is in the city.

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And Yehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd with great joy.

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And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.

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And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better is my death than my life.`

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And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?` and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me -- unto death.`

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And Yehovah saith, `Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou didst not labour, neither didst thou nourish it, which a son of a night was, and a son of a night perished,

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and I -- have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left -- and much cattle!`

Micah 1

 

 

 

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