Jonah 4 (NET)

Jonah 4:1¹This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jonah 4:9Luke 15:28Matt 20:15Jonah 4:4Jas 4:5-6Luke 7:39Acts 13:46

Jonah 4:2²He prayed to the Lord and said, “Oh, Lord, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 86:15Exod 34:6-7Num 14:18-19Joel 2:13-14Ps 145:8Mic 7:18Ps 86:5Exod 32:14Jer 18:8Ps 78:38

Jonah 4:3³So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:4Eccl 7:1Jer 20:14-18Num 11:15Jonah 4:8Num 20:31 Cor 9:15Job 3:20-21Job 6:8-9Job 7:15-16

Jonah 4:4⁴The Lord said, “Are you really so very angry?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 20:15Jonah 4:9Ps 106:32-33Jas 1:19-20Mic 6:3Num 20:11-12

Jonah 4:5⁵Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:91 Kgs 19:13Gen 19:27-28Isa 57:17Jer 17:15-16Jer 20:9Jonah 1:5Luke 19:41-44

Jonah 4:6⁶The Lord God appointed a little plant and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue him from his misery. Now Jonah was very delighted about the little plant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 103:10-141 Cor 7:30Esth 5:9Isa 39:2Jonah 1:17Luke 10:20Amos 6:13

Jonah 4:7⁷So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 1:12Ps 90:5-6Isa 40:6-8Job 1:21Ps 102:10Ps 30:6-7

Jonah 4:8⁸When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life and said, “I would rather die than live!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jonah 4:3Ps 121:6Ezek 19:12Isa 49:10Rev 3:19Rev 7:161 Sam 3:182 Sam 15:25-26Job 2:10Jonah 1:17

Jonah 4:9⁹God said to Jonah, “Are you really so very angry about the little plant?” And he said, “I am as angry as I could possibly be!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 4:5-14Job 18:4Job 40:4-5Job 5:2Judg 16:162 Cor 7:10Matt 26:38Rev 9:6

Jonah 4:10¹⁰The Lord said, “You were upset about this little plant, something for which you did not work, nor did you do anything to make it grow. It grew up overnight and died the next day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Jonah 4:11¹¹Should I not be more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than 120,000 people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 18:33Luke 15:28-32Jonah 1:2Ps 145:8-9Ps 36:6Deut 1:39Isa 1:18Ps 104:14Jonah 3:2-3Ps 104:27-28