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Jonah 4:1-11 (AMP)

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¹ BUT IT displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry. ² And he prayed to the Lord and said, I pray You, O Lord, is not this just what I said when I was still in my country? That is why I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and You revoke the evil against them. ³ Therefore now, O Lord, I beseech You, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live. ⁴ Then said the Lord, Do you do well to be angry? ⁵ So Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and he made a booth there for himself. He sat there under it in the shade till he might see what would become of the city. ⁶ And the Lord God prepared a gourd and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil situation. So Jonah was exceedingly glad of the gourd. ⁷ But God prepared a cutworm when the morning dawned the next day, and it smote the gourd so that it withered. ⁸ And when the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said, It is better for me to die than to live. ⁹ And God said to Jonah, Do you do well to be angry for the loss of the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die! ¹⁰ Then said the Lord, You have had pity on the gourd, for which you have not labored nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. ¹¹ And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons not know their right hand from their left, and also many cattle ?


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 1) Anger / Fits of Rage / Bitterness - Jonah - because of God's grace on the people of Nineveh
(v. 2) Anger / Fits of Rage / Bitterness - Jonah - because of God's grace on the people of Nineveh
(v. 3) Holy / Holiness / Worldliness - Jonah - It is better for me to die than to live
(v. 4) Anger / Fits of Rage / Bitterness - Jonah - because of God's grace on the people of Nineveh
(v. 9) Anger / Fits of Rage / Bitterness - Jonah - because of God's grace on the people of Nineveh

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 2) Change in Plans (2015-09-23)
(v. 11) Change in Plans (2015-09-23)

Definition(s):
Jonah (Joh-na): or Jonas, a dove; he that oppresses; destroyer
So (Soh):