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World English Bible

Jonah 4 (WEBP)

[1] But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
[2] He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
[3] Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
[4] Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
[5] Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
[6] Yahweh God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
[7] But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
[8] When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
[9] God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
[10] Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night.
[11] Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Jonah 4 (KJVS)

[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.
[7] But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
[8] And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
[9] And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
[10] Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
[11] and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Jonah 4:4 Or, art thou greatly angry?
Jonah 4:6a Or, palmcrist. Heb. Kikajon
Jonah 4:6b Heb. rejoiced with great joy
Jonah 4:8 Or, silent
Jonah 4:9a Or, art thou greatly angry?
Jonah 4:9b Or, I am greatly angry
Jonah 4:10a Or, spared
Jonah 4:10b Heb. was the son of the night

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Jonah 4 (BYZ)

[1] Καὶ () ἐλυπήθη () Ιωνας () λύπην () μεγάλην () καὶ () συνεχύθη. ()
[2] Καὶ () προσεύξατο () πρὸς () κύριον () καὶ () εἶπεν () Ὦ () κύριε, () οὐχ () οὗτοι () οἱ () λόγοι () μου () ἔτι () ὄντος () μου () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ () μου; () Διὰ () τοῦτο () προέφθασα () τοῦ () φυγεῖν () εἰς () Θαρσις, διότι () ἔγνων () ὅτι () σὺ () ἐλεήμων () καὶ () οἰκτίρμων, () μακρόθυμος καὶ () πολυέλεος καὶ () μετανοῶν () ἐπὶ () ταῖς () κακίαις. ()
[3] Καὶ () νῦν, () δέσποτα () κύριε, () λαβὲ () τὴν () ψυχήν () μου () ἀπ’ () ἐμοῦ, () ὅτι () καλὸν () τὸ () ἀποθανεῖν () με () ἢ () ζῆν () με. ()
[4] Καὶ () εἶπεν () κύριος () πρὸς () Ιωναν () Εἰ () σφόδρα () λελύπησαι () σύ; ()
[5] Καὶ () ἐξῆλθεν () Ιωνας () ἐκ () τῆς () πόλεως () καὶ () ἐκάθισεν () ἀπέναντι () τῆς () πόλεως· () καὶ () ἐποίησεν () ἑαυτῷ () ἐκεῖ () σκηνὴν () καὶ () ἐκάθητο () ὑποκάτω () αὐτῆς () ἐν () σκιᾷ, () ἕως () οὗ () ἀπίδῃ () τί () ἔσται () τῇ () πόλει. ()
[6] Καὶ () προσέταξεν () κύριος () ὁ () θεὸς () κολοκύνθῃ, καὶ () ἀνέβη () ὑπὲρ () κεφαλῆς () τοῦ () Ιωνα () τοῦ () εἶναι () σκιὰν () ὑπεράνω () τῆς () κεφαλῆς () αὐτοῦ () τοῦ () σκιάζειν αὐτῷ () ἀπὸ () τῶν () κακῶν () αὐτοῦ· () καὶ () ἐχάρη () Ιωνας () ἐπὶ () τῇ () κολοκύνθῃ χαρὰν () μεγάλην. ()
[7] Καὶ () προσέταξεν () ὁ () θεὸς () σκώληκι () ἑωθινῇ τῇ () ἐπαύριον, () καὶ () ἐπάταξεν () τὴν () κολόκυνθαν, καὶ () ἀπεξηράνθη.
[8] Καὶ () ἐγένετο () ἅμα () τῷ () ἀνατεῖλαι () τὸν () ἥλιον () καὶ () προσέταξεν () ὁ () θεὸς () πνεύματι () καύσωνος () συγκαίοντι, καὶ () ἐπάταξεν () ὁ () ἥλιος () ἐπὶ () τὴν () κεφαλὴν () Ιωνα· () καὶ () ὠλιγοψύχησεν καὶ () ἀπελέγετο τὴν () ψυχὴν () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () εἶπεν () Καλόν () μοι () ἀποθανεῖν () με () ἢ () ζῆν. ()
[9] Καὶ () εἶπεν () ὁ () θεὸς () πρὸς () Ιωναν () Εἰ () σφόδρα () λελύπησαι () σὺ () ἐπὶ () τῇ () κολοκύνθῃ; Καὶ () εἶπεν () Σφόδρα () λελύπημαι () ἐγὼ () ἕως () θανάτου. ()
[10] Καὶ () εἶπεν () κύριος () Σὺ () ἐφείσω () ὑπὲρ () τῆς () κολοκύνθης, ὑπὲρ () ἧς () οὐκ () ἐκακοπάθησας () ἐπ’ () αὐτὴν () καὶ () οὐκ () ἐξέθρεψας () αὐτήν, () ἣ () ἐγενήθη () ὑπὸ () νύκτα () καὶ () ὑπὸ () νύκτα () ἀπώλετο. ()
[11] Ἐγὼ () δὲ () οὐ () φείσομαι () ὑπὲρ () Νινευη () τῆς () πόλεως () τῆς () μεγάλης, () ἐν () ᾗ () κατοικοῦσιν () πλείους () ἢ () δώδεκα () μυριάδες () ἀνθρώπων, () οἵτινες () οὐκ () ἔγνωσαν () δεξιὰν () αὐτῶν () ἢ () ἀριστερὰν () αὐτῶν, () καὶ () κτήνη () πολλά; ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.