Jonah 4
1 And it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Et afflictus est Ionas afflictione magna, et iratus est:
2 And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
et oravit ad Dominum, et dixit: Obsecro Domine, numquid non hoc est verbum meum, cum adhuc essem in terra mea? propter hoc praeoccupavi ut fugerem in Tharsis. scio enim quia tu Deus clemens, et misericors es, patiens, et multae miserationis, et ignoscens super malitia.
3 And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
Et nunc Domine tolle quaeso animam meam a me: quia melior est mihi mors quam vita.
4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
Et dixit Dominus: Putasne bene irasceris tu?
5 And 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.
Et egressus est Ionas de civitate, et sedit contra Orientem civitatis: et fecit sibimet umbraculum ibi, et sedebat subter illud in umbra, donec videret quid accideret civitati.
6 And Jehovah Elohim 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 trouble. And Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.
Et praeparavit Dominus Deus hederam, et ascendit super caput Ionae, ut esset umbra super caput eius, et protegeret eum: laboraverat enim: et laetatus est Ionas super hedera, laetitia magna.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Et paravit Deus vermen ascensu diluculi in crastinum: et percussit hederam, et exaruit.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Et cum ortus fuisset sol, praecepit Dominus vento calido, et urenti: et percussit sol super caput Ionae, et aestuabat: et petivit animae suae ut moreretur, et dixit: Melius est mihi mori, quam vivere.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, unto death.
Et dixit Dominus ad Ionam: Putasne bene irasceris tu super hedera? Et dixit: Bene irascor ego usque ad mortem.
10 And Jehovah said, Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
Et dixit Dominus: Tu doles super hederam, in qua non laborasti, neque fecisti ut cresceret. quae sub una nocte nata est, et sub una nocte periit.
11 and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Et ego non parcam Ninive civitati magnae, in qua sunt plus quam centum viginti millia hominum, qui nesciunt quid sit inter dexteram et sinistram suam, et iumenta multa?
