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Jonah 4 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:1 - But Jonas was very deeply grieved, and he was confounded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:2 - And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? therefore I [fn]made haste to flee to Tharsis; because I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentest of evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:3 - And now, [fn]Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:4 - And the Lord said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved?
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:5 - And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6 - And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:7 - And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it smote the gourd, and it withered away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:8 - And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun smote on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:9 - And God said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:10 - And the Lord said, Thou hadst pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not suffered, neither didst thou rear it; which came up [fn]before night, and perished before another night:
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - and shall not I spare Nineve, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and also much cattle?
BES Footnotes
Gr. anticipate.
Gr. sovereign Lord.
Or, little before.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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