RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

very angry. 3145
2 And he made tefillah to vuvh, and said, O vuvh, was
not this what I said, when I was yet in my country?
Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that You
are an El full of favor, and full of rachamim, slow to
anger, and great in rachamim, and relenting from doing
evil.
3 Therefore now, O vuvh, I beg You, take my chayim
from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Then said vuvh, Do you have a right to be angry?
5 So Yonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side
of the city, and there made himself a sukkah, and sat
under it in the shadow, until he might see what would
become of the city.
6 And vuvh Elohim prepared a plant, and made it to
come up over Yonah, that it might be a shadow over his
head, to deliver him from his grief. So Yonah was
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exceedingly in gilah because of the plant.
7 But Elohim prepared a worm when the morning rose
the next day, and it attacked the plant that it withered.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did rise, that
Elohim prepared a strong east wind; and the sun beat
upon the head of Yonah, that he fainted, and wished to
die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 And Elohim said to Yonah, Do you have a right to be
angry because of the plant? And he said, I do have a
right to be angry, even to my death.
10 Then said vuvh, You have had pity on the plant, for
which you have not labored, neither made it grow;
which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Ninveh, that great city, where
there are more than one hundred twenty thousand
persons that cannot discern between their right hand
and their left hand; and also many cattle? 3146