Jonah 4

⁹Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

²⁸The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

¹⁵Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

⁴But the Lord replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”

³⁹When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”

⁵Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

⁶But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

¹⁵But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

⁶Then the Lord passed in front of Moses and called out: “The Lord, the Lord God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

⁷maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

¹⁸‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

¹⁹Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”

¹³So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

¹⁴Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the Lord your God.

⁸The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

⁵For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.

⁴while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

¹A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

¹⁴Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.

¹⁵If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

³The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the Lord!

⁸As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

¹⁵Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

⁹Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

³²At the waters of Meribah they angered the Lord, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

³³For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

³‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

¹⁹My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

²⁰for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.

¹¹Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.

¹²But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

⁹There Elijah entered a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

¹⁷I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.

¹³When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

¹⁵Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come now!”

¹⁶But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.

²⁷Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

²⁸He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

⁵The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

¹⁰He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

¹¹For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

⁹That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

²⁰Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

³⁰those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;

¹⁷Now the Lord had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

²And Hezekiah welcomed the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his entire armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

¹²The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

⁵You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

⁶in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

⁶A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

⁷The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the Lord blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

²¹saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

¹⁰because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

⁶In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”

⁷O Lord, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

⁶The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

³And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

¹²But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

¹⁰They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

¹⁹Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

¹⁶‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

¹⁶Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

²For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

⁵but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

⁶“Why are you angry,” said the Lord to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?

⁴“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

⁵I have spoken once, but I have no answer—twice, but I have nothing to add.”

⁴You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

⁶In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

³³Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’

²⁸The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

²⁹But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

⁶Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

²“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

⁸The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

⁹The Lord is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

³⁹And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.