{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Jonah",
 "chapter": 4,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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:"
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "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?"
  }
 ],
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