Jonah 4

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1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2 And he prayed unto the Lord , and said, I pray thee, O Lord , was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful , slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 Therefore now, O Lord , take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 4 ¶ Then said the Lord , Doest thou well to be angry? 5 So Jonah 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, till he might see what would become of the city. 6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd , and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind ; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. 10 Then said the Lord , Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? TG Mercy . HEB relentest; i.e., Jonah knew that God could revoke the calamity decreed, but expected He would do so even without the repentance of the people. OR shelter. OR castor bean plant. Mosiah 7:31 ; 12:6 . TG Anger . 2 Ne. 26:33 ; Alma 26:37 (27, 37) . TG Benevolence . TG Worth of Souls . TG Man, Natural, Not Spiritually Reborn .