Књига пророка Јоне 4
1 А Јони би врло недраго, и расрди се.
But this displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 И помоли се Господу и рече: Господе! Не рекох ли то кад још бејах у својој земљи? Зато хтедох пре побећи у Тарсис; јер знах да си Ти Бог милостив и жалостив, спор на гнев и обилан милосрђем и кајеш се ода зла.
And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Ah! Jehovah, was not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? Therefore I made haste to flee to Tarshish. For I knew that thou art a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in mercy, and that thou repentest of a threatened evil.
3 Сада Господе, узми душу моју од мене, јер ми је боље умрети него живети.
And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray thee, my life from me! for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 А Господ рече: Је ли добро што се срдиш?
And Jehovah said, Is it right that thou shouldst be angry?
5 И Јона изиђе из града, и седе с истока граду и начини онде колибу, и сеђаше под њом у хладу да види шта ће бити од града.
Now Jonah had gone out of the city, and had sat on the east side of the city, and had made himself a booth there, and had sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.
6 А Господ Бог заповеди, те узрасте тиква над Јоном да му буде сен над главом да му помогне у муци његовој; и Јона се обрадова тикви веома.
And God, Jehovah, appointed a gourd; and it grew up over Jonah to be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his distress. And Jonah was exceedingly glad of the gourd.
7 Потом заповеди Бог, те дође црв у зору сутрадан, и подгризе тикву, те усахну.
But God appointed a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd so that it withered.
8 И кад ограну сунце, посла Бог сув источни ветар; и сунце стаде жећи Јону по глави тако да обамираше и пожеле да умре говорећи: Боље ми је умрети него живети.
And when the sun arose, God appointed a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he was faint, and he asked for himself death, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 А Бог рече Јони: Је ли добро што се срдиш тикве ради? А он рече: Добро је што се срдим до смрти.
And God said to Jonah, Is it right that thou shouldst be angry for the gourd? And he said, It is right that I should be angry even to death.
10 А Господ му рече: Теби је жао тикве, око које се ниси трудио, и које ниси одгајио, него једну ноћ узрасте а другу ноћ пропаде.
And Jehovah said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for which thou hast not labored, and which thou madest not to grow, which grew up in a night and perished in a night;
11 А мени да не буде жао Ниневије, великог града, у коме има више од сто и двадесет хиљада људи који још не знају шта је десно шта ли лево, и много стоке?
and should not I spare 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 many cattle?
