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Jonah 4
Study home Concordance Topics Original languages Current outline context Fleeing from God’s Mission 1:1–17 The Great Storm 1:4–10 Jonah Cast into the Sea 1:11–17 Jonah’s Prayer of Repentance 2:1–10 Fulfilling God’s Mission 3:1–10 Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites 3:1–4 Nineveh Repents 3:5–10 Questioning God’s Mercy 4:1–11 Jonah’s Anger 4:1–4 The Withering Plant 4:5–11
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Jonah, however (dove), was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
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So he prayed to the LORD YHWH , saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish (yellow jasper). I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
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And now, O LORD YHWH , please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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But the LORD YHWH replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
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Then Jonah (dove) left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
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So the LORD God YHWH Elohim appointed a vine qiqayon , and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s (dove) head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
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When dawn came the next day, God Elohim appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
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As the sun was rising, God Elohim appointed a scorching east wind ruach , and the sun beat down on Jonah’s (dove) head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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Then God Elohim asked Jonah (dove), “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
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But the LORD YHWH said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
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So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh (abode of Ninus), which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
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Gourd (1.) Jonah's gourd (Jonah 4:6-10), bearing the Hebrew name kikayon (found only here), was probably the kiki of the Egyptians, the croton. This is the castor-oil plant, a species of ricinus, the palma Christi, so called from the palmate division of its leaves. Others with more probability regard it as the cucurbita the el-keroa of the Arabs, a kind of pumpkin peculiar to the East. "It is grown in great abundance on the alluvial banks of the Tigris and on the plain between the river and the ruins of Nineveh." At the present day it is trained to run over structures of mud and brush to form boots to protect the gardeners from the heat of the noon-day sun. It grows with extraordinary rapidity, and when cut or injured withers away also with great rapidity. (2.) Wild gourds (2 Kings 4:38-40), Heb. pakkuoth, belong to the family of the cucumber-like plants, some of which are poisonous. The species here referred to is probably the colocynth (Cucumis colocynthus). The LXX. render the word by "wild pumpkin." It abounds in the desert parts of Syria, Egypt, and Arabia. There is, however, another species, called the Cucumis prophetarum, from the idea that it afforded the gourd which "the sons of the prophets" shred by mistake into their pottage.
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