Jona 4

1 Fa tsy sitrak’ i Jona indrindra izany, ka nirehitra ny fahatezerany.

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

2 Dia nivavaka tamin’ i Jehovah izy ka nanao hoe: Mifona aminao aho, Jehovah ô, tsy izao ihany va no efa nolazaiko fony aho mbola tany amin’ ny taniko? Fa ny andrao hisy toy izao no nandosirako ho any Tarsisy, satria fantatro fa Hianao dia Andriamanitra mamindra fo sy miantra, mahari-po sady be famindram-po ary manenina ny amin’ ny loza.

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 Koa mifona aminao aho ankehitriny, Jehovah ô, esory ny aiko; fa aleoko ho faty toy izay ho velona.

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

4 Fa hoy Jehovah: Moa mety va izao firehitry ny fahatezeranao izao?

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

5 Dia nivoaka ny tanàna Jona ka nipetraka teo atsinanan-tanàna; ary nanao trano rantsan-kazo ho azy teo izy ka nipetraka teo ambanin’ ny alokalony ambara-pahitany izay hiafaran’ ny tanàna.

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 Ary Jehovah Andriamanitra nanomana tanantanamanga, ka nampaniriny hanalokaloka an’ i Jona izany ho alokaloky ny lohany, hanafaka ny alahelony. Ka dia nahafaly an’ i Jona indrindra ny tanantanamanga.

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 Kanjo nony ampitso maraina dia nanomana fositra koa Andriamanitra, ka namely ilay tanantanamanga iny, dia nalazo io.

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

8 Ary nony niposaka ny masoandro, Andriamanitra dia nanomana rivotra mahamay avy any atsinanana, ary dia namely ny lohan’ i Jona ny masoandro, dia ana izy ka nangataka ny ho faty, nanao hoe: Aleoko ho faty toy izay ho velona.

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 Fa hoy Andriamanitra tamin’ i Jona: Moa mety va izao firehitry ny fahatezeranao ny amin’ ny tanantanamanga izao? Ary hoy izy: Mety ny hahatezerako na dia mandra-pahafatiko aza.

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 Dia hoy Jehovah: Hianao malahelo ny tanantanamanga izay tsy nisasaranao na nampanirinao, dia ilay naniry indray alina monja ary maty indray alina koa;

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 ka moa Izaho tsy mba halahelo an’ i Ninive, ilay tanàna lehibe va, izay misy olona tsy omby roa alina sy iray hetsy, izay tsy mahafantatra ny havanany sy ny haviany, sady be biby fiompy koa?

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?