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Jonah 4:1 (KJV)

“But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.”

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Jonah 4 — surrounding verses

1

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

2

And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

3

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

4

Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

5

So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

6

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

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