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Jonah 4:1
1But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry.
Jonah 4:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry.
- New Living Translation (NLT)This change of plans greatly upset Jonah, and he became very angry.
Context of Jonah 4:1
But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 2He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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וַיֵּ֥רַע אֶל־יוֹנָ֖ה רָעָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַיִּ֖חַר לֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jonah 4:1
- Jonah 4:9But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”
- Matthew 20:15Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
- Luke 7:39When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
- Luke 15:28“The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him.
- Acts 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
- James 4:5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?
Commentaries on Jonah 4:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly - This hasty, and indeed inconsiderate prophet, was vexed because his prediction was not fulfilled. He had more respect to his high sense of his own honor than he had to the goodness and mercy of God. He appeared to care little whether six hundred and twenty thousand persons were destroyed or not, so he might not pass for a deceiver, or one that denounced a falsity. And he was very angry - Because the prediction was not…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1And Jonah was displeased exceedingly - It was an untempered zeal. The prophet himself records it as such, and how he was reproved for it. He would, like many of us, govern God‘s world better than God Himself. Short-sighted and presumptuous! Yet not more short-sighted than those who, in fact, quarrel with God‘s Providence, the existence of evil, the baffling of good, “the prison walls of obstacles and trials,” in what we would do for God‘s glory. What is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Jonah repines at God's mercy to Nineveh, and is reproved. (1-4) He is taught by the withering of a gourd, that he did wrong. (5-11) Verses 1-4 What all the saints make matter of joy and praise, Jonah makes the subject of reflection upon God; as if showing mercy were an imperfection of the Divine nature, which is the greatest glory of it. It is to his sparing, pardoning mercy, we all owe it that we are out of hell. He wishes for death: this was the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1however: See study note on Jonah 3:10.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-111. angry--literally, "hot," probably, with grief or vexation, rather than anger [Fairbairn]. How sad the contrast between God's feeling on the repentance of Nineveh towards Him, and Jonah's feeling on the repentance of God towards Nineveh. Strange in one who was himself a monument of mercy on his repentance! We all, like him, need the lesson taught in the parable of the unforgiving, though forgiven, debtor (Mt 18:23-35). Jonah was grieved because…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jonah 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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