Jonah 4:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;

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  • Jonah 4:9 : 9 And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me -- unto death.'
  • Luke 15:28 : 28 `And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;
  • Jonah 4:4 : 4 And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?'
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?
  • Luke 7:39 : 39 And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind `is' the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'
  • Acts 13:46 : 46 And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;
  • Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' 6 and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

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  • Jonah 4:2-10
    9 verses
    85%

    2 and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou `art' a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

    3 And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'

    4 And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?'

    5 And Jonah goeth forth from the city, and sitteth on the east of the city, and maketh to himself there a booth, and sitteth under it in the shade, till that he seeth what is in the city.

    6 And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd `with' great joy.

    7 And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.

    8 And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'

    9 And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me -- unto death.'

    10 And Jehovah saith, `Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou didst not labour, neither didst thou nourish it, which a son of a night was, and a son of a night perished,

  • Jonah 1:1-5
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    1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah son of Amittai, saying:

    2 `Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.'

    3 And Jonah riseth to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and goeth down `to' Joppa, and findeth a ship going `to' Tarshish, and he giveth its fare, and goeth down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.

    4 And Jehovah hath cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great tempest in the sea, and the ship hath reckoned to be broken;

    5 and the mariners are afraid, and cry each unto his god, and cast the goods that `are' in the ship into the sea, to make `it' light of them; and Jonah hath gone down unto the sides of the vessel, and he lieth down, and is fast asleep.

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    14 And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, `We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.'

    15 And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

  • 1 And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

  • 17 And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.

  • Jonah 3:1-4
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    1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jonah a second time, saying,

    2 `Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;'

    3 and Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days.

    4 And Jonah beginneth to go in to the city a journey of one day, and proclaimeth, and saith, `Yet forty days -- and Nineveh is overturned.'

  • 10 And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.

  • 59 God hath heard, and sheweth Himself wroth. And kicketh exceedingly against Israel.

  • 15 And `with' great wrath I am wroth against the nations who are at ease, For I was a little wroth, and they assisted -- for evil.

  • 21 Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel,

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    1 To the Overseer with stringed instruments, on the octave. -- A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, in Thine anger reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me.

  • 2 `Jehovah was wroth against your fathers -- wrath!

  • Jonah 1:7-8
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    7 And they say each unto his neighbour, `Come, and we cast lots, and we know on whose account this evil `is' on us.' And they cast lots, and the lot falleth on Jonah.

    8 And they say unto him, `Declare to us, we pray thee, on what account this evil `is' on us? what `is' thine occupation, and whence comest thou? what `is' thy country, seeing thou art not of this people?'

  • 6 and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.

  • 11 And they say unto him, `What do we do to thee that the sea may cease from us, for the sea is more and more tempestuous?'

  • 18 Lest Jehovah see, and `it be' evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

  • 7 And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel,

  • 8 For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.

  • 1 A Psalm of David, `To cause to remember.' Jehovah, in Thy wrath reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me.

  • 27 and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book,

  • 2 A God zealous and avenging `is' Jehovah, An avenger `is' Jehovah, and possessing fury. An avenger `is' Jehovah on His adversaries, And He is watching for His enemies.

  • 20 And the anger of Jehovah doth burn against Israel, and He saith, `Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to My voice --

  • 41 And the ten having heard, began to be much displeased at James and John,

  • 37 `Also with me hath Jehovah been angry for your sake, saying, Also, thou dost not go in thither;

  • 17 For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.

  • 34 `And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, saying,

  • 10 And Moses heareth the people weeping by its families, each at the opening of his tent, and the anger of Jehovah burneth exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses `it is' evil.

  • 3 Jehovah hath repented of this, `It shall not be,' said Jehovah.

  • 21 `And Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance;

  • 7 And shake and tremble doth the earth, And foundations of hills are troubled, And they shake -- because He hath wrath.

  • 31 `For a cause of Mine anger, and a cause of My fury, hath this city been to Me, even from the day that they built it, and unto this day -- to turn it aside from before My face,

  • 6 And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words,