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Jonah 4:1, 3-4, 9-11

Jonah 4:1 NCV

But this made Jonah very unhappy, and he became angry.

Jonah 4:3-4 NCV

So now I ask you, LORD, please kill me. It is better for me to die than to live.” Then the LORD said, “Do you think it is right for you to be angry?”

Jonah 4:9-11 NCV

But God said to Jonah, “Do you think it is right for you to be angry about the plant?” Jonah answered, “It is right for me to be angry! I am so angry I could die!” And the LORD said, “You are so concerned for that plant even though you did nothing to make it grow. It appeared one day, and the next day it died. Then shouldn’t I show concern for the great city Nineveh, which has more than one hundred twenty thousand people who do not know right from wrong, and many animals, too?”