Jonah 4

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

Et afflictus est Ionas afflictione magna, et iratus est:

2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'I pray Thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in mine own country? Therefore I fled beforehand unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, 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 Therefore now, O LORD, 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 the LORD said: 'Art thou greatly angry?'

Et dixit Dominus: Putasne bene irasceris tu?

5 Then 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.

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 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 evil. So 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 vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and 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: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.'

Et dixit Dominus ad Ionam: Putasne bene irasceris tu super hedera? Et dixit: Bene irascor ego usque ad mortem.

10 And the LORD said: 'Thou hast had 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 should not I have pity on 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?'

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?