| Jon 4:1 | Jonah repining at God's mercy, |
Jon 4:1
•JONAH OR JONAS
•JONAH OR JONAS | ¶1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. |
Jon 4:2
Tarshish | And he prayed2 unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled3 before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art4 a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of5 great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. |
Jon 4:3
•HOPE-DESPAIR
•PRAYER | Therefore now, O LORD, take6, I beseech thee, my life from me; for7 it is better for me to die than to live. |
| Jon 4:4 | is reproved by the type of a gourd. |
Jon 4:4
•JONAH OR JONAS | Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry8? |
Jon 4:5
•BOOTHS
•JONAH OR JONAS | ¶ So Jonah9 went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till10 he might see what would become of the city. |
Jon 4:6
•GOURDS
•PROVIDENCE DIVINE | And the LORD11 God prepared a gourd12, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So13 Jonah was exceeding glad14 of the gourd. |
Jon 4:7
•WORMS | But God prepared15 a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered16. |
Jon 4:8
•HOPE-DESPAIR
•HOPE-DESPAIR
•PATIENCE-IMPATIENCE | And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God17 prepared a vehement18 east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished19 in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. |
Jon 4:9
•PATIENCE-IMPATIENCE | And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry20 for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry21, even22 unto death. |
Jon 4:10
•GOURDS | ¶ Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on23 the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: |
Jon 4:11
•MEEKNESS-RETALIATION
•NINEVEH
Nineveh | And should24 not I spare Nineveh25, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore26 thousand persons that cannot27 discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also28 much cattle? |
