Књига пророка Јоне 4
1 А Јони би врло недраго, и расрди се.
And it was vexing unto Jonah, with a great vexation, —and it angered him.
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.
So he prayed unto Yahweh, and said—Ah now! Yahweh! Was not, this, my word, while I was yet upon mine own soil? For this cause, did I hasten to flee unto Tarshish, —because I knew that, thou, art a GOD of favour and compassion, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and art grieved over calamity.
3 Сада Господе, узми душу моју од мене, јер ми је боље умрети него живети.
Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take, I pray thee, my life from me, —for it were better for me, to die, than, to live.
4 А Господ рече: Је ли добро што се срдиш?
Then said Yahweh, Art thou rightly 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.
But Jonah, went forth, out of the city, and abode on the east side of the city; and made for himself there, a hut, and sat under it, in the shade, until 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.
Now Yahweh God appointed a gourd, and caused it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his vexation, —and Jonah rejoiced over the gourd, with great rejoicing.
7 Потом заповеди Бог, те дође црв у зору сутрадан, и подгризе тикву, те усахну.
But God appointed a worm, at the uprisings of the dawn, the next day, —and it smote the gourd, 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 it came to pass, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint, —and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were 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.
Then said God unto Jonah, Art thou rightly angry over the gourd? And he said, I am rightly angry, unto 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.
Then said Yahweh, Thou, wouldest have spared the gourd, for which thou hadst not toiled, neither hadst thou made it grow, —which, as the off-spring of a night, came up, and, as the offspring of a night, perished;
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 was not, I, to spare Nineveh, the great city, —wherein are more than twelve times ten thousand human beings, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, besides much cattle?
