Jonah 4
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1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
1这事 约拿 大大不悦，且甚发怒，
2He 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.
2就祷告耶和华说：「耶和华啊，我在本国的时候岂不是这样说吗？我知道你是有恩典、有怜悯的 神，不轻易发怒，有丰盛的慈爱，并且后悔不降所说的灾，所以我急速逃往 他施 去。
3Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
3耶和华啊，现在求你取我的命吧！因为我死了比活着还好。」
4The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
4耶和华说：「你这样发怒合乎理吗？」
5Then 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.
5于是 约拿 出城，坐在城的东边，在那里为自己搭了一座棚，坐在棚的荫下，要看看那城究竟如何。
6The 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.
6耶和华 神安排一棵蓖麻，使其发生高过 约拿 ，影儿遮盖他的头，救他脱离苦楚； 约拿 因这棵蓖麻大大喜乐。
7But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
7次日黎明， 神却安排一条虫子咬这蓖麻，以致枯槁。
8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
8日头出来的时候， 神安排炎热的东风，日头曝晒 约拿 的头，使他发昏，他就为自己求死，说：「我死了比活着还好！」
9God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
9神对 约拿 说：「你因这棵蓖麻发怒合乎理吗？」他说：「我发怒以至于死，都合乎理！」
10The LORD said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night.
10耶和华说：「这蓖麻不是你栽种的，也不是你培养的；一夜发生，一夜干死，你尚且爱惜；
11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
11何况这 尼尼微 大城，其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二万多人，并有许多牲畜，我岂能不爱惜呢？」
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