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Jonah 4

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1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. ✦ 2He 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. ✦ 3Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.” ✦ 4Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?” ✦ 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. ✦ 6Yahweh 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. ✦ 7But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered. ✦ 8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” ✦ 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.” ✦ 10Yahweh 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. ✦ 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 much livestock?” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Jonah 4 ·6Jonah 1 ·61 Kgs 19 ·4Jonah 3 ·3Ps 145 ·3Num 20 ·3Jer 20 ·3Luke 15 ·2

Christ at the center

Three days in the belly of the fish is the sign Jesus gave of his own death and resurrection (Matt 12:40); and God's mercy on pagan Nineveh foreshadows the gospel going to the nations.

How Jonah 4 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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