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Jonah

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Jonah's Anger at the LORD's Compassion

1 And Jonas was afflicted with great affliction, and was angry:📜💬📚

2 and he prayed to our Lord, & said: I beseech thee o Lord, Why, is not this my word, when I was yet in my country? For this did I prevent to fly into Tharsis. For I know that thou art a clement, and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and forgiving upon the evil.📜💬📚

3 And now Lord take I beseech thee my soul from me: because better is death to me than life.📜💬📚

4 And our Lord said: Art thou angry well thinkest thou?📜💬📚

5 And Jonas went out of the city, and sat against the East part of the city: and he made himself a bower there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall to the city.📜💬📚

6 And our Lord God prepared an ivy tree, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him: for he had laboured: and Jonas rejoiced upon the ivy with great joy.📜💬📚

7 And God prepared a worm in the rising of the morning against the morrow: & it struck the ivy: & it withered.📜💬📚

8 And when the sun was risen, our Lord commanded an hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled for heat: and he desired for his soul to die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.📜💬📚

9 And our Lord said to Jonas: Art thou angry well, thinkest thou, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry well even unto death.📜💬📚

10 And our Lord said: Thou art sorry for the ivy, wherein thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came forth, and in one night is perished.📜💬📚

11 And shall not I spare Ninive the great city, wherein are more than a hundred twenty thousand men, that know not what is between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?📜💬📚