Jonah 4:8

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When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said,“I would rather die than live!”

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  • Ps 121:6 : 6 The sun will not harm you by day, or the moon by night.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
  • Isa 49:10 : 10 They will not be hungry or thirsty; the sun’s oppressive heat will not beat down on them, for one who has compassion on them will guide them; he will lead them to springs of water.
  • Ezek 19:12 : 12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered– a fire consumed them.
  • Jonah 1:4 : 4 But the LORD hurled a powerful wind on the sea. Such a violent tempest arose on the sea that the ship threatened to break up!
  • Jonah 1:17 : 17 Jonah Prays(2:1) The LORD sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Moses then said to Aaron,“This is what the LORD spoke:‘Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.’” So Aaron kept silent.
  • 1 Sam 3:18 : 18 So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli said,“The LORD will do what he pleases.”
  • 2 Sam 15:25-26 : 25 Then the king said to Zadok,“Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again. 26 However, if he should say,‘I do not take pleasure in you,’ then he will deal with me in a way that he considers appropriate.”
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he replied,“You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.
  • Jonah 4:6-7 : 6 The LORD God appointed a little plant and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue him from his misery. Now Jonah was very delighted about the little plant. 7 So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
  • Rev 7:16 : 16 They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat,
  • Song 1:6 : 6 Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards. Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!

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  • Jonah 4:9-10
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    9God said to Jonah,“Are you really so very angry about the little plant?” And he said,“I am as angry as I could possibly be!”

    10The LORD said,“You were upset about this little plant, something for which you have not worked nor did you do anything to make it grow. It grew up overnight and died the next day.

  • Jonah 4:1-7
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    1Jonah Responds to God’s Kindness This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry.

    2He prayed to the LORD and said,“Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish!– because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.

    3So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”

    4The LORD said,“Are you really so very angry?”

    5Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.

    6The LORD God appointed a little plant and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue him from his misery. Now Jonah was very delighted about the little plant.

    7So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

  • Jonah 1:1-8
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    1¶ Jonah Tries to Run from the Lord The LORD’s message came to Jonah son of Amittai,

    2“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”

    3Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the LORD. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the LORD.

    4But the LORD hurled a powerful wind on the sea. Such a violent tempest arose on the sea that the ship threatened to break up!

    5The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship’s cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.

    6The ship’s captain approached him and said,“What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!”

    7The sailors said to one another,“Come on, let’s cast lots to find out whose fault it is that this disaster has overtaken us.” So they cast lots, and Jonah was singled out.

    8They said to him,“Tell us, whose fault is it that this disaster has overtaken us? What’s your occupation? Where do you come from? What’s your country? And who are your people?”

  • Jonah 1:11-15
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    11Because the storm was growing worse and worse, they said to him,“What should we do to you so that the sea will calm down for us?”

    12He said to them,“Pick me up and throw me into the sea so that the sea will calm down for you, because I know it’s my fault you are in this severe storm.”

    13Instead, they tried to row back to land, but they were not able to do so because the storm kept growing worse and worse.

    14So they cried out to the LORD,“Oh, please, LORD, don’t let us die on account of this man! Don’t hold us guilty of shedding innocent blood. After all, you, LORD, have done just as you pleased.”

    15So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

  • Jonah 1:17
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    17Jonah Prays(2:1) The LORD sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

  • Jonah 2:10
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    10Then the LORD commanded the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.

  • Jonah 2:1-2
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    1Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish

    2and said,“I called out to the LORD from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer.

  • 1 Kgs 19:4
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    4while he went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the LORD to take his life:“I’ve had enough! Now, O LORD, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

  • Mark 4:6
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    6When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

  • Jonah 3:1-4
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    1The People of Nineveh Respond to Jonah’s Warning The LORD’s message came to Jonah a second time,

    2“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

    3So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, in keeping with the LORD’s message.(Now Nineveh was an enormous city– it required three days to walk through it!)

    4When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced,“At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

  • Job 1:19
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    19and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

  • Matt 12:40
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    40For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

  • Job 27:21
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    21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

  • Eccl 11:7
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    7Life Should Be Enjoyed Because Death is Inevitable Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for a person to see the sun.

  • Rev 16:8
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    8Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire.

  • Isa 27:8
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    8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

  • Mark 4:37
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    37Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

  • Luke 12:55
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    55And when you see the south wind blowing, you say,‘There will be scorching heat,’ and there is.

  • Matt 13:6
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    6But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

  • John 6:18
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    18By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.

  • Matt 8:24
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    24And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

  • Gen 19:23
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    23The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.

  • Ps 78:26
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    26He brought the east wind through the sky, and by his strength led forth the south wind.

  • 1 Kgs 18:45
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    45Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel.