Jonah 4:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

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  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.
  • Matt 18:33 : 33 Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you?
  • Luke 15:28-32 : 28 But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in. 29 But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends: 30 But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him. 31 And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours. 32 But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
  • Deut 1:39 : 39 And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.
  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time. 28 They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.
  • Ps 145:8-9 : 8 The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy. 9 The Lord is good to all men; and his mercies are over all his works.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time. 16 By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
  • Jonah 3:2-3 : 2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you. 3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.
  • Jonah 3:10-4:1 : 10 And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not. 1 But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.

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    9 And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.

    10 And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;

  • Jonah 3:2-9
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    2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

    3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

    4 And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

    5 And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

    6 And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

    7 And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:

    8 And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.

    9 Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

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    7 And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

    8 Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

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    2 Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

  • Jer 9:9-10
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    9 Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

    10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

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    5 And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:

  • Nah 2:8
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    8 And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.

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    24 If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?

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    1 But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.

    2 And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

  • Jonah 4:4-5
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    4 And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?

    5 Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.

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    29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.

    30 And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

    31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

    32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

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    9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

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    8 And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?

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    33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,

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    6 And I will send a great disease on the people living in this town, on man and on beast, causing their death.

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    41 The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.

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    32 The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: for they were turned away from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; but now something greater than Jonah is here.

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    26 And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.

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    3 For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.

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    6 For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

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    13 And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

    14 And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.

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    22 Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full?

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    3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

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    29 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

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    21 For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?

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    19 Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:

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    3 Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.

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    18 For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.

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    10 And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.

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    4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

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    7 And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

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    14 Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.

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    12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.