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Jonah 4:3

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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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  1. Jonah 4:1

    But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

  2. Jonah 4:2

    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.

  3. Jonah 4:4

    Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?

  4. Jonah 4:5

    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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