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Jonah 4:3

American Standard Version

Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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Jonah 4:3 in other translations

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:3 · World English Bible

Jonah 4:3 in context

  1. 1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
  2. 2And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
  3. 3Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
  4. 4And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
  5. 5Then 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 shade, till he might see what would become of the city.