## Jonah's Anger 

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But this was a great evil to Jonah, and he became angry. 

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And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "Ah! O Yahweh, was not this my word _to myself_ while I was still in my _own_ land? Therefore I went ahead to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning evil. 

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So now, O Yahweh, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life." 

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And Yahweh said, "Do you have good reason to be angry?" 

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Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of the city. And there he made a booth for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city. 

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So Yahweh God appointed a plant, and it came up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his _miserable_ evil. And Jonah was extremely glad about the plant. 

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But God appointed a worm at the breaking of dawn the next day, and it struck the plant, and it dried up. 

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Then it happened that as the sun rose up, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and asked with _all_ his soul to die and said, "Death is better to me than life." 

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Then God said to Jonah, "Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "I have good reason to be angry, even to death." 

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Then Yahweh said, "You had pity on the plant for which you did not work and _which_ you did not cause to grow, which came to be overnight and perished overnight. 

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So should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know _the difference_ between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"