1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 
        
        
           2 And he prayed unto the lord, and 
said, 
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   אָמַר
  
   aw-mar' 
  
   a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet. 
 
 I pray thee, O 
Lord, 
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   יְהוָ֞ה 
  
   yeh-ho-vaw' 
  
   from 'hayah' (1961); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord. 
  
   Compare 'Yahh' (3050), 'Yhovih' (3069). 
  
  
   [According to Dr. Nehemiah Gordon, a combination of the past, present and future tenses of the verb 
  
   "e'heyeh"- "I will be". 
  
   The third person forms: 
  
    - 
       "haya" - "He was" 
    
 
    - 
       "hoveh" - "He is" 
    
 
    - 
       "yi'hiyeh" - "He will be" 
    
 
  
   are combined into the name which the LORD calls himself 
  
   "יְהוָ֞ה - Yehovah" in 
Exodus 3:15] 
 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. 
             
               Jonah did not want Ninevah saved. Ninevah was a city of the Assyrians, known for their cruelty, as exampled in 
Ezekiel 23:23-25 and following.
             
 
         
        
           3 Therefore now, O 
Lord, 
   3068 
  
   יְהוָ֞ה 
  
   yeh-ho-vaw' 
  
   from 'hayah' (1961); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord. 
  
   Compare 'Yahh' (3050), 'Yhovih' (3069). 
  
  
   [According to Dr. Nehemiah Gordon, a combination of the past, present and future tenses of the verb 
  
   "e'heyeh"- "I will be". 
  
   The third person forms: 
  
    - 
       "haya" - "He was" 
    
 
    - 
       "hoveh" - "He is" 
    
 
    - 
       "yi'hiyeh" - "He will be" 
    
 
  
   are combined into the name which the LORD calls himself 
  
   "יְהוָ֞ה - Yehovah" in 
Exodus 3:15] 
 take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. 
        
 
        
           4 Then 
said 
   0559 
  
   אָמַר
  
   aw-mar' 
  
   a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet. 
 
 the 
Lord, 
   3068 
  
   יְהוָ֞ה 
  
   yeh-ho-vaw' 
  
   from 'hayah' (1961); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord. 
  
   Compare 'Yahh' (3050), 'Yhovih' (3069). 
  
  
   [According to Dr. Nehemiah Gordon, a combination of the past, present and future tenses of the verb 
  
   "e'heyeh"- "I will be". 
  
   The third person forms: 
  
    - 
       "haya" - "He was" 
    
 
    - 
       "hoveh" - "He is" 
    
 
    - 
       "yi'hiyeh" - "He will be" 
    
 
  
   are combined into the name which the LORD calls himself 
  
   "יְהוָ֞ה - Yehovah" in 
Exodus 3:15] 
 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
           
             
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   יְהוָ֞ה 
  
   yeh-ho-vaw' 
  
   from 'hayah' (1961); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord. 
  
   Compare 'Yahh' (3050), 'Yhovih' (3069). 
  
  
   [According to Dr. Nehemiah Gordon, a combination of the past, present and future tenses of the verb 
  
   "e'heyeh"- "I will be". 
  
   The third person forms: 
  
    - 
       "haya" - "He was" 
    
 
    - 
       "hoveh" - "He is" 
    
 
    - 
       "yi'hiyeh" - "He will be" 
    
 
  
   are combined into the name which the LORD calls himself 
  
   "יְהוָ֞ה - Yehovah" in 
Exodus 3:15] 
           
 
           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, 
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   אָמַר
  
   aw-mar' 
  
   a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet. 
 
 It is better for me to die than to live. 
        
 
        
           9 And God 
said 
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   אָמַר
  
   aw-mar' 
  
   a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet. 
 
 to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he 
said, 
   0559 
  
   אָמַר
  
   aw-mar' 
  
   a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet. 
 
 I do well to be angry, even unto death. 
        
 
        
           10 Then 
said 
   0559 
  
   אָמַר
  
   aw-mar' 
  
   a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet. 
 
 the 
Lord, 
   3068 
  
   יְהוָ֞ה 
  
   yeh-ho-vaw' 
  
   from 'hayah' (1961); (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord. 
  
   Compare 'Yahh' (3050), 'Yhovih' (3069). 
  
  
   [According to Dr. Nehemiah Gordon, a combination of the past, present and future tenses of the verb 
  
   "e'heyeh"- "I will be". 
  
   The third person forms: 
  
    - 
       "haya" - "He was" 
    
 
    - 
       "hoveh" - "He is" 
    
 
    - 
       "yi'hiyeh" - "He will be" 
    
 
  
   are combined into the name which the LORD calls himself 
  
   "יְהוָ֞ה - Yehovah" in 
Exodus 3:15] 
 Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, 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?