{"id":1733,"date":"2015-01-10T13:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/jon04\/"},"modified":"2020-03-09T05:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T09:40:31","slug":"jon04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/jon04\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonah 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 4<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou <span class=\"add\">art<\/span> a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for <span class=\"add\">it is<\/span> better for me to die than to live. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made <span class=\"add\">it<\/span> 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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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, <span class=\"add\">It is<\/span> better for me to die than to live.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> unto death.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and <span class=\"add\">also<\/span> much cattle? <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>Jonah Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/jon01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/jon02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/jon03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/jon04\">4<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 1\u00a0But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2\u00a0And 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. 3\u00a0Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4\u00a0Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? 5\u00a0So 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. 6\u00a0And 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. 7\u00a0But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8\u00a0And 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. 9\u00a0And 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. 10\u00a0Then 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jonah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3955,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}