Jonas 4

1 Men det tog Jonas saare fortrydeligt op, og han blev vred.

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

2 Saa bad han til HERREN og sagde: »Ak, HERRE! Var det ikke det, jeg tænkte, da jeg endnu var hjemme i mit Land? Derfor vilde jeg ogsaa før fly til Tarsis; jeg vidste jo, at du er en naadig og barmhjertig Gud, langmodig og rig paa Miskundhed, og at du angrer det onde.

And he prayed to 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 to Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest of the evil.

3 Saa tag nu, HERRE, mit Liv; thi jeg vil hellere dø end leve.«

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

4 Men HERREN sagde: »Er det med Rette, du er vred?«

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

5 Saa gik Jonas ud og slog sig ned østen for Byen; der byggede han sig en Løvhytte og satte sig i Skygge under den for at se, hvorledes det gik Byen.

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 shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

6 Da bød Gud HERREN en Olieplante skyde op over Jonas og skygge over hans Hoved for at tage hans Mismod, og Jonas glædede sig højligen over den.

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

7 Men ved Morgengry næste Dag bød Gud en Orm stikke Olieplanten, saa den visnede;

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

8 og da Solen stod op, rejste Gud en glødende Østenstorm, og Solen stak Jonas i Hovedet, saa han vansmægtede og ønskede sig Døden, idet han tænkte: »Jeg vil hellere dø end leve.«

And it came to pass, when the sun rose 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.

9 Men Gud sagde til Jonas: »Er det med Rette, du er vred for Olieplantens Skyld?« Han svarede: »Ja, med Rette er jeg saa vred, at jeg kunde tage min Død derover.«

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] to death.

10 Da sagde HERREN: »Du ynkes over Olieplanten, som du ingen Møje har haft med eller opelsket, som blev til paa een Nat og gik ud paa een Nat.

Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

11 Og jeg skulde ikke ynkes over Nineve, den store Stad med mer end tolv Gange 10 000 Mennesker, som ikke kan skelne højre fra venstre, og meget Kvæg.«

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and [also] many cattle?