Jonah 4:11

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And shall not I spare Niniue that great citie, in the which are more then sixscore thousand persons that knowe not their right hand and their left, and also much cattaile?

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  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 Aryse, & go to Niniue that great citie, and crye against it: for their wickednesse is come vp before me.
  • Matt 18:33 : 33 Shouldest not thou also, haue had compassion on thy felowe, euen as I had pitie on thee?
  • Luke 15:28-32 : 28 And he was angry, and woulde not go in: Therfore came his father out, and entreated hym. 29 He aunswered and sayde to his father: Lo, these many yeres haue I done thee seruice, neither brake I at any tyme thy commaundement, and yet thou neuer gauest me a kidde to make mery with my friendes: 30 But assoone as this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy goodes with harlottes, thou hast for his pleasure kylled that fat calfe. 31 And he sayde vnto hym: Sonne, thou art euer with me, and all that I haue, is thyne, 32 It was meete that we shoulde make mery and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alyue agayne: and was lost, and is founde.
  • Deut 1:39 : 39 Moreouer, your chyldren, which ye sayde should be a pray, and your sonnes whiche in that day had no knowledge betweene good and euyll, they shall go in thyther, and vnto them wyll I geue it, and they shall enioy it.
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy righteousnes is like the mountaynes of God: thy iudgementes are a great deapth, thou sauest both man and beast O God.
  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He causeth grasse to growe for cattell: and hearbes for the vse of man.
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 These wayte all vpon thee: that thou mayest geue them meate in due season. 28 When thou geuest it them, they gather it: and when thou openest thyne hand, they are filled with that which is good.
  • Ps 145:8-9 : 8 God is gratious and mercifull: loth to be angry, and great in louing kindnesse. 9 God is good vnto euery man: and his mercie is ouer all his workes.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all wayte vpon thee: and thou geuest them their meate in due season. 16 Thou openest thyne hande: and thou satisfiest the desire of euery thing liuing.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 And then go to, saith the Lorde, let vs talke together: though your sinnes be as red as scarlet, they shalbe as whyte as snowe: and though they were lyke purple, they shalbe as whyte as wooll.
  • Jonah 3:2-3 : 2 Aryse, and go to Niniue that great citie, and preache against it the preaching which I speake vnto thee. 3 So Ionas arose, and went to Niniue according to the word of the Lord (Niniue was a great citie and excellent, of three dayes iourney.)
  • Jonah 3:10-4:1 : 10 And God sawe their workes, that they turned from their euil wayes, and he repented of the euill that he saide he woulde do vnto them, and did it not. 1 And this displeased Ionas greatly, and he was angrye within him selfe.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jonah 4:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9And the Lord saide vnto Ionas: Doest thou well to be so angry within thy selfe for the gourde? And he saide: I do well to be angry euen vnto death.

    10Then saide the Lorde, Thou hast had compassion on the gourde about the which thou bestowedst no labour, neither madest it growe: which came vp in a night, and perished in a night:

  • Jonah 3:2-9
    8 verses
    72%

    2Aryse, and go to Niniue that great citie, and preache against it the preaching which I speake vnto thee.

    3So Ionas arose, and went to Niniue according to the word of the Lord (Niniue was a great citie and excellent, of three dayes iourney.)

    4And Ionas began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and he cryed & saide: Yet fourtie dayes, & Niniue shalbe destroyed.

    5And the men of Niniue beleued God, and proclaymed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them to the leaste of them.

    6And worde came vnto the king of Niniue: which arose from his throne, and put of his robe, and couered him selfe with sackcloth, & sate downe in asshes.

    7And he caused a cryer to crye, and say through the citie by the counsell of the king & his nobles, Let neither man nor beast, bullocke nor sheepe, taste ought at all, neither feede, nor drinke water.

    8And let both man & beast put on sackcloth, and crye mightyly vnto God: yea let euery man turne from his euill way, and from the wickednesse that is in his handes.

    9Who can tel whether God wyl turne and be moued with repentaunce, and turne from his fierce wrath, that we perishe not?

  • Nah 3:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7And it shall come to passe that all that shall behold thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say, Niniue is destroyed, and who is greeued therwith? from whence shall I seke out comforters for thee?

    8Wilt thou count thy selfe better then Alexandria the great, that was scituate amonges the riuers, compassed round about with water, whose fortresse was the sea and had her wall from the sea?

  • Jonah 1:2
    70%

    2Aryse, & go to Niniue that great citie, and crye against it: for their wickednesse is come vp before me.

  • Jer 9:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Should I not punishe them for these thinges, saith the Lorde? or shoulde I not be auenged of any suche people as this?

    10Upon the mountaines wyl I take vp a lamentation and a sorowfull crye, and a mourning vpon the faire places of the wildernesse: Namely, howe they are so brent vp, that no man goeth there any more, yea a man shall not heare one beast crye there: byrdes and cattell are all gone from thence.

  • Ezek 9:5
    69%

    5And to the other he sayd, that I might here, Go ye after hym through the citie, and sinite, let your eye spare none, neither haue ye any pitie:

  • Nah 2:8
    69%

    8Yea many a day Niniue was as a ponde full of water, yet now they flee, Stand ye, stande ye, and no man loketh backe.

  • Gen 18:24
    68%

    24If there be fiftie ryghteous within the citie, wylt thou destroye and not spare the place for the sake of fiftie ryghteous that are therein?

  • Jonah 4:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1And this displeased Ionas greatly, and he was angrye within him selfe.

    2And he prayed vnto the Lorde, and saide: I pray thee O Lorde, was not this my saying when I was yet in my countrey? therfore I hasted to flee into Tharsis: For I knewe that thou art a gratious God, and mercifull, long suffering, and of great kindnesse, and repentest thee of euill.

  • Jonah 4:4-5
    2 verses
    67%

    4Then saide the Lord, Doest thou wel to be angry?

    5And Ionas went out of the citie, and sate him downe on the east side thereof, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadowe, till he might see what should be done in the citie.

  • Gen 18:29-32
    4 verses
    67%

    29And he proceaded to speake vnto hym agayne, and sayde: What yf there shall be fourtie founde there? He aunswered: I wyll not do it for fourties sake.

    30He sayde vnto hym agayne: O let not my lord be angry that I speake: What yf there shall thirtie be founde there? And he sayde: I wyll do nothyng yf I fynde thirtie there.

    31He sayde agayne: O see I haue taken vppon me to speake nowe also vnto my Lord: What if there shalbe twentie founde there? He aunswered, I wyll not destroy them for twenties sake.

    32And he sayde: O let not my Lorde be angry, and I wyll speake yet but this once: What if ten shalbe found there? He aunswered, I wil not destroy them for tennes sake.

  • Jer 5:9
    67%

    9Shoulde I not correct this, saith the Lorde? shoulde I not be auenged of euery people that is lyke vnto this?

  • Jer 22:8
    66%

    8And all the people that go by this citie, shall speake one to another: Wherfore hath the Lorde done thus vnto this noble citie?

  • Num 31:33
    66%

    33And three score and twelue thousande of beefes,

  • Jer 21:6
    66%

    6And wyll smite them that dwell in this citie, yea both men and cattell shall dye of a great pestilence.

  • Matt 12:41
    66%

    41The men of Niniue shall ryse in the iudgement, with this nation, and condemne it, because they repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, here is one greater then Ionas.

  • Luke 11:32
    66%

    32The men of Niuiue shall rise in iudgement with this nation, and shall condempne them, for they repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.

  • Gen 18:26
    66%

    26And the Lorde sayde: If I fynde in Sodome fiftie ryghteous within the citie, I wyll spare all the place for their sakes.

  • Amos 5:3
    66%

    3For thus sayth the Lorde God, The citie which went out by a thousand, shall leaue an hundreth, & that whiche went foorth by an hundreth, shall leaue ten, to the house of Israel.

  • Zech 11:6
    66%

    6Therefore wyl I no more spare those that dwell in the lande saith the Lorde: but lo, I wyll deliuer the people, euery man into his neighbours hande, and into the hande of his king, that they may smite the lande, and out of their handes I wyll not deliuer them.

  • Zeph 2:13-14
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    66%

    13Yea he shall stretch out his hande ouer the north, and destroy Assur: As for Niniue he shall make it desolate, drye, and waste.

    14The flockes and all the beastes of the people shall lye in the middest of it, pellicanes and owles shal abide in the vpper postes of it, foules shall sing in the wyndowes, and desolation shalbe vpon the postes, for the Cedars are vncouered.

  • Num 11:22
    65%

    22Shall the sheepe & the oxen be slayne for them, to finde them? either shall all the fishe of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffise them?

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    65%

    3Nowe therfore go, and smyte Amalek, and destroye ye all that pertaineth vnto them, and haue no compassion on them, slay both man & woman, infant and suckling, oxe and sheepe, camel and asse.

  • Jer 5:29
    65%

    29Should I not punishe these thinges saith the Lorde? should not I be auenged of all suche people as these be?

  • Ezek 14:21
    65%

    21Moreouer thus saith the Lorde God, Howe much more when I sende my foure troublous plagues vpon Hierusalem, the sworde, hunger, perillous beastes, and pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?

  • Ezek 14:19
    65%

    19If I sende a pestilence into this lande, and powre out my sore indignation vppon it in blood, so that I roote out of it both man and beast,

  • Ps 78:38
    65%

    38Yea many a tyme he dyd much for to represse his anger: and neuer woulde suffer his whole rage to breake out.

  • Exod 9:3
    65%

    3Beholde, the hande of the Lorde is vpon thy flocke which is in the fielde, for vpon Horses, vpon asses, vpon camelles, vpon oxen, and vpon sheepe, there shalbe a mightie great morayne.

  • Ezek 8:18
    65%

    18Therfore wyll I also do somethyng in my wrathful displeasure, so that mine eye shall not spare them, neither wyll I haue pitie: yea and though they crye in mine eares with a loude voyce, yet wyll I not heare them.

  • Ezek 9:10
    65%

    10As touchyng me also, mine eye shall not spare them, neither wyll I haue pitie: but wyll recompence their wayes vpon their heades.

  • Zech 11:4
    64%

    4Thus saith the Lorde my God: Feede the sheepe of the slaughter,

  • Gen 6:7
    64%

    7And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.

  • Matt 18:14
    64%

    14Euen so, it is not the wyll of your father in heauen, that one of these litle ones shoulde peryshe.

  • Gen 10:12
    64%

    12Resen also betweene Niniue & Chalah, and it is a great citie.