Jonah 4:9

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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.

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  • Gen 4:5-9 : 5 But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad. 6 And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad? 7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master. 8 And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death. 9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth. 11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand; 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth. 13 And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength. 14 You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.
  • Judg 16:16 : 16 So day after day she gave him no peace, for ever questioning him till his soul was troubled to death.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
  • Job 18:4 : 4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
  • Job 40:4-5 : 4 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his? 5 Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
  • Rev 9:6 : 6 And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.

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  • Jonah 4:1-8
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    1But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.

    2And 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.

    3So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

    4And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?

    5Then 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.

    6And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.

    7But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.

    8Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

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    10And 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;

    11And 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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    14So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.

    15So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.

  • Jonah 1:1-8
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    1And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,

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

    3And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

    4And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.

    5Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.

    6And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

    7And they said to one another, Come, let us put this to the decision of chance and see on whose account this evil has come on us. So they did so, and Jonah was seen to be the man.

    8Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?

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

  • 10But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's.

  • 6And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?

  • 1And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

  • Jonah 3:1-2
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    1And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,

    2Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

  • 11And they said to him, What are we to do to you so that the sea may become calm for us? For the sea was getting rougher and rougher.

  • 9Who 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?

  • 4But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

  • 7And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

  • 8For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • 44And Saul said, May God's punishment be on me if death is not your fate, Jonathan.

  • 5Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

  • 26Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

  • 5Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

  • 9Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

  • Ezek 17:9-10
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    9Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?

    10And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

  • 8Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

  • 17I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

  • 5And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:

  • 4My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

  • 3The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.

  • 11But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees?

  • 11God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

  • 4As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • 18For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • 8Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

  • 6And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.