Jonah 4
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Jonah 4:6-9

6So the Lord God designated a 1plant, and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to 2relieve him of his discomfort. And Jonah 3was overjoyed about the plant. 7But God designated a worm when dawn came the next day, and it attacked the plant and it 4withered. 8And when the sun came up God designated a scorching 5east wind, and the 6sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint, and he begged with all his soul to die, saying, “7Death is better to me than life!”

9But God said to Jonah, “Do you have a good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to the point of death!”

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  1. 1. Jonah 4:6 Prob. a castor oil plant, and so throughout the ch ↩
  2. 2. Jonah 4:6 Lit save him from ↩
  3. 3. Jonah 4:6 Lit rejoiced with great joy ↩
  4. 4. Jonah 4:7 Joel 1:12 ↩
  5. 5. Jonah 4:8 Ezek 19:12; Hos 13:15 ↩
  6. 6. Jonah 4:8 Ps 121:6; Is 49:10 ↩
  7. 7. Jonah 4:8 Jon 4:3 ↩

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