Jonah 4

Jonah’s Anger

1Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious. # 4:1 Jnh 4:9; Mt 20:15; Lk 15:28 2He prayed to the Lord, # 4:2 Jr 20:7 “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. # 4:2 Jnh 1:3 I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, # 4:2 Ex 34:6; Nm 14:18; Ps 86:5,15; Jl 2:13 slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster. # 4:2 Neh 9:17 3And now, Lord, take my life from me, # 4:3 1Kg 19:4; Jb 6:8–9 for it is better for me to die than to live.” # 4:3 Jb 7:15–16; Ec 7:1

4The Lord asked, “Is it right for you to be angry? ”

5Jonah left the city and found a place east of it. # 4:5 1Kg 19:9,13 He made himself a shelter there and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city. 6Then the Lord God appointed a plant, and it grew over Jonah to provide shade for his head to rescue him from his trouble. # 4:6 Or disaster, or evil Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant. 7When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, and it withered. # 4:7 Jl 1:12

8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. # 4:8 Ezk 19:12; Hs 13:15 The sun beat down on Jonah’s head # 4:8 Ps 121:6; Is 49:10 so much that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.” # 4:8 Jnh 4:3

9Then God asked Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant? ”

“Yes, it’s right! ” he replied. “I’m angry enough to die! ”

10And the Lord said, “You cared about the plant, which you did not labor over and did not grow. It appeared in a night and perished in a night. 11So may I not care about the great city of Nineveh, # 4:11 Jnh 3:10 which has more than a hundred twenty thousand people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, # 4:11 Dt 1:39; Is 7:16 as well as many animals? ” # 4:11 Ps 36:6

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Yonah 4

1But it displeased Yonah with a ra'ah gedolah, and he was very angry. 2And he davened unto Hashem, and said: I pray Thee, Hashem, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was quick to flee unto Tarshish before; for I had da'as that Thou art an EL CHANNUN V'RACHUM ERECH APAYIM V'RAV CHESED#4:2 Ex 34:6 and relentest Thee of the ra'ah. 3Therefore now, Hashem, take, I beseech Thee, my nefesh from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

4Then said Hashem: Doest thou well to be angry?

5So Yonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a sukkah, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would happen to the city. 6And Hashem Elohim prepared a climbing gourd, and made it to come up over Yonah, that it might be a tzel (shade) over his rosh, to deliver him from his displeasure. So Yonah had simchah gedolah about the climbing gourd.

7But HaElohim prepared a tola'at (worm) when the shachar (dawn) came the next day, and it chewed the climbing gourd that it withered. 8And it came to pass, when the shemesh did arise, that Elohim prepared a vehement scorching east ruach (wind); and the shemesh beat upon the rosh Yonah, that he grew faint, and wanted to#4:8 Moshiach is the Navi like Moshe, the Navi like Yonah, whom Mavet swallows and then vomits up so that he can divide the spoil with those whose chet he bears away to death like the Yom Kippur scapegoat (see Isa 53:12). die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

9And Elohim said to Yonah: Doest thou well to be angry for the climbing gourd? And he said: I do well to be angry, even unto mot (death).

10Then said Hashem: Thou hast had pity on the climbing gourd, though thou hast not labored for it, neither madest it grow; which came up a ben lailah, and perished a ben lailah; 11And should not I spare Nineveh, that ir hagedolah, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their yamin (right hand) and their semol (left hand); and also much cattle?

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