Jonas Propheta 4

1 Et afflictus est Ionas afflictione magna, et iratus est:

Therefore it displeased Ionah exceedingly, and he was angry.

2 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.

And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill.

3 Et nunc Domine tolle quaeso animam meam a me: quia melior est mihi mors quam vita.

Therefore nowe O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die then to liue.

4 Et dixit Dominus: Putasne bene irasceris tu?

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

5 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.

So Ionah went out of the citie and sate on the East side of the citie, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadowe till he might see what should be done in the citie.

6 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.

And the Lord God prepared a gourde, and made it to come vp ouer Ionah, that it might be a shadowe ouer his head and deliuer him from his griefe. So Ionah was exceeding glad of the gourde.

7 Et paravit Deus vermen ascensu diluculi in crastinum: et percussit hederam, et exaruit.

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

8 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.

And when the sunne did arise, God prepared also a feruent East winde: and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to dye, then to liue.

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

And God said vnto Ionah, Doest thou well to be angrie for the gourde? And he said, I doe well to be angrie vnto the death.

10 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.

Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pitie on the gourde for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it growe, which came vp in a night, and perished in a night,

11 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?

And shoulde not I spare Nineueh that great citie, wherein are sixe score thousande persons, that cannot discerne betweene their right hand, and their left hand, and also much cattell?