Книга пророка Ионы 4

1 И опечалися Иона печалию великою и смутися,

But this displeased Jonah and he became very angry.

2 и помолися ко Господу и рече: о Господи, не сия ли убо словеса моя, яже глаголах, еще сущу ми на земли моей? Сего ради предварих бежати в Фарсис, зане разумех, яко милостив Ты еси и щедр, долготерпелив и многомилостив, и каяйся о злобах (человеческих):

So Jonah prayed to Yahweh and said, “Ah, Yahweh, is this not just what I said when I was back in my own country? That is why I acted first and tried to flee to Tarshish—because I knew that you are a gracious God, compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in covenant faithfulness, and you hold back from sending disaster.

3 и ныне, Владыко Господи, приими душу мою от мене, яко уне ми умрети, нежели жити.

Therefore now, Yahweh, I beg you, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

4 И рече Господь ко Ионе: аще зело опечалился еси ты?

Yahweh said, “Is it good that you are so angry?”

5 И изыде Иона из града и седе прямо града, и сотвори себе кущу и седяще под нею в сени, дондеже увидит, что будет граду.

Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made a shelter and sat under it in the shade so that he could see what might become of the city.

6 И повеле Господь Бог тыкве, и возрасте над главою его, еже осенити его от злых его. И возрадовася Иона о тыкве радостию великою.

Yahweh God prepared a plant and made it grow up over Jonah so that it might be a shade over his head to relieve his distress. Jonah was very glad because of the plant.

7 И повеле Господь Бог червию раннему во утрие, и подяде тыкву, и изсше.

But God prepared a worm at sunrise the next morning. It attacked the plant and the plant withered.

8 И бысть вкупе внегда возсияти солнцу, и повеле Бог ветру знойну жегущу, и порази солнце на главу Ионину, и малодушствоваше и отрицашеся души своея и рече:

It came about that when the sun rose the next morning, God prepared a hot east wind. Also, the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he became faint. Then Jonah wished that he might die. He said to himself, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

9 уне ми умрети, нежели жити. И рече Господь Бог ко Ионе: зело ли опечалился еси ты о тыкве? И рече (Иона): зело опечалихся аз даже до смерти.

Then God said to Jonah, “Is it good that you are so angry about the plant?” Then Jonah said, “It is good that I am angry, even to death.”

10 И рече Господь: ты оскорбился еси о тыкве, о нейже не трудился еси, ни воскормил еси ея, яже родися об нощь и об нощь погибе:

Yahweh said, “You have had compassion for the plant, for which you have not labored, nor did you make it grow. It grew up in a night and died in a night.

11 Аз же не пощажду ли Ниневии града великаго, в немже живут множайшии неже дванадесять тем человек, иже не познаша десницы своея, ниже шуйцы своея, и скоти их мнози?

So as for me, should I not have compassion for Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand people who do not know the difference between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?”