4:1
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
(4:1) "It displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry."
Jonah was angry when his preaching converted a city.
4:2
And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this
my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto
Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to
anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is
better for me to die than to live.
4:4
Then said the LORD, Doest thou
well to be angry?
(4:6-8) God prepared a gourd to shade Jonah's head, a worm to destroy the gourd,
and then a drying wind and baking sun that made Jonah wish he was dead.
(4:6) "God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head"
(4:7) "But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered."
(4:8) "God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die."
(4:9-11) God asks Jonah why he is angry about the gourd. What about the 120,000 people that God
planned to kill (along with their animals)? Shouldn't he be angry about that, too?
(4:9) "God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death."
(4:11) "Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between
their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"
4:5
So 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.
4:6
And the LORD God 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 grief. So Jonah was
exceeding glad of the gourd.
4:7But God prepared a worm
when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement
east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and
wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
4:9
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he
said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
4:10
Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou
hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and
perished in a night:
4:11
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then
sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and
their left hand; and also much cattle?
