Jonah - Verse by Verse

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[bible]Jonah 3:6[/bible]

 

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Jonah 3:7 (KJV) And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

 

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Jonah 3:8 (KJV) But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

 

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Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

 

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Jonah 3:10 (KJV) And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

 

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Jonah 4:1 (KJV) But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

 

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Jonah 4:2 (KJV) 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.

 

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Jonah 4:3 (KJV) Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

 

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Jonah 4:4 (KJV) Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

 

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Jonah 4:5 (KJV) 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.

 

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Jonah 4:6 (KJV) 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.

 

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Jonah 4:7 (KJV) But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

 

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Jonah 4:8 (NKJV)
And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind, and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death on himself, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

 

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Jonah 4:9 (KJV) 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.

 

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Jonah 4:10 (KJV) 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:

 

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Jonah 4:11 (KJV) 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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Jonah 1:1 (KJV) Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

 

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Jonah 1:2 (KJV) Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

 

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Jonah 1:3 (KJV) But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

 

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[bible]Jonah 1:4[/bible]