Jonas 4
1 E desagradou-se Jonas extremamente d'isso, e ficou todo apaixonado.
But Jonah was very distressed [that God had not destroyed Nineveh]. He became very angry. [The people of Nineveh were non-Jews, and Jonah did not think that God should act mercifully toward anyone who was not a Jew].
2 E orou ao Senhor, e disse: Ah! Senhor! não foi esta a minha palavra, estando eu ainda na minha terra? por isto é que me preveni, fugindo para Tarsis, pois sabia que és Deus piedoso, e misericordioso, longanimo e grande em benignidade, e que te arrependes do mal.
He prayed to Yahweh, “O Yahweh, what you have done is what I thought that you would do, before I left home [RHQ]. That is why I [decided] immediately to run away, and go to Tarshish [city], because I knew that you, O God, act very kindly and compassionately [toward all people]. You do not quickly become angry with people who do evil things. You love people very much, and you change your mind about punishing [people who sin].
3 Peço-te, pois, ó Senhor, tira-me a minha alma, porque melhor me é morrer do que viver.
[So] now, O Yahweh, [since you will not destroy Nineveh city as you said you would], allow me to die, because it would be better for me to die than to [continue to] live.”
4 E disse o Senhor: É bem feito que assim te apaixones?
Yahweh replied, “(Why is it right for you to be angry [about my not destroying the city]?/It is not right for you to be angry [about my not destroying the city]!) [RHQ]”
5 Jonas, pois, saiu da cidade, e assentou-se ao oriente da cidade: e ali fez uma cabana, e se assentou debaixo d'ella, á sombra, até ver que era o que acontecia á cidade.
Jonah [did not reply]. He went out of the city to the east [side of it]. He made a small shelter in order that he could sit under it and be protected from the sun. He sat under the shelter and waited to see what would happen to the city.
6 E preparou o Senhor Deus uma aboboreira, e a fez subir por cima de Jonas, para que fizesse sombra sobre a sua cabeça, a fim de o livrar do seu enfado: e Jonas se alegrou com grande alegria por causa da aboboreira.
Then Yahweh God caused a vine to grow up [immediately] to shade Jonah’s head from the sun and make him [feel] more comfortable. Jonah was very happy about [having] the vine [over his head].
7 Mas Deus enviou um bicho, no dia seguinte ao subir da alva, e feriu a aboboreira, e se seccou.
But before dawn the next day, God sent a worm that chewed the vine, with the result that the vine withered.
8 E aconteceu que, apparecendo o sol, Deus ordenou um vento calmoso oriental, e o sol feriu a cabeça de Jonas; e elle desmaiou, e desejou com toda a sua alma morrer, dizendo: Melhor me é morrer do que viver.
Then, when the sun rose [high in the sky], God sent a very hot wind from the east, and the sun shone very strongly on Jonah’s head, with the result that he felt faint. He wanted to die, and he said, “It would be better for me to die than to [continue to] live!”
9 Então disse Deus a Jonas: É bem feito que assim te apaixones por causa da aboboreira? E elle disse: É bem feito que me apaixone até á morte.
But God asked Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about [what happened to] the vine?” Jonah replied, “[Yes], it is right! [Now] I am very angry and I want to die!”
10 E disse o Senhor: Tiveste tu compaixão da aboboreira, na qual não trabalhaste, nem a fizeste crescer, que n'uma noite nasceu, e n'uma noite pereceu;
But Yahweh said [to him], “You have been concerned about my [causing] that vine [to wither], even though you did not take care of it, and you did not make it grow. It just grew up during one night, and it completely withered [at the end of] the next night.
11 E não hei de eu ter compaixão da grande cidade de Ninive em que estão mais de cento e vinte mil homens que não sabem discernir entre a sua mão direita e a sua mão esquerda, e muitos animaes?
But there are more than 120,000 people in Nineveh who [are very young, and because of that], they cannot tell which is their right hand and which is their left hand, and there are also many cattle, [and none of these have done anything to displease me]. So (is it not right for me to be concerned about the people of that huge city, [and not want to destroy them]?/it is certainly right for me to be concerned about the people of that huge city [and not want to destroy them]!) [RHQ]”
