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Jonah 4:4

β€œYahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?”

Verse in context β€” Jonah 4

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.

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