Jonah 4:1

Jonah 4:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
• New International Version (NIV)But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became 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.

Context of Jonah 4:1

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2And 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 hasted to flee unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repentest thee of the evil. 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:1 word by word

וַיֵּ֥רַע אֶל־יוֹנָ֖ה רָעָ֣ה גְדוֹלָ֑ה וַיִּ֖חַר לֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

• displeasedרָעַעrâ‛a‛ · be evilH7489
• Jonahיוֹנָהyônâh · JonahH3124
• exceedinglyגָּדוֹלgâdôl gâdôl · great: largeH1419
• angryחָרָהchârâh · to be incensedH2734

Cross-references for Jonah 4:1

• Jonah 4:9And 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.
• Matthew 20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
• Luke 7:39Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what manner of woman this is which touched him, that she is a sinner.
• Luke 15:28But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father came out, and entreated him.
• Acts 13:46And Paul and Barnabas spake out boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
• James 4:5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

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

Topics related to Jonah 4:1

• Anger
• Presumption

In the dictionaries

• Jonah
• Intercession
• Jonah, the Book of
• compassion, compassionate

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