Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jonah 4:3 in context
Jonah 4:1–6
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But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
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He prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, LORD, 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.
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Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
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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.
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The LORD 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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