约拿书 4
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
4 这事令约拿十分不悦，非常恼怒。 2 他向耶和华祷告说：“耶和华啊，我在家乡的时候岂不早就说过你会这样做吗？我知道你是一位有恩典、有怜悯的上帝，不轻易发怒，充满慈爱，不忍心降灾，所以我才急速逃往他施。 3 耶和华啊，求你收回我的性命吧，我死了比活着还好！” 4 耶和华对他说：“你这样大发脾气合理吗？”
5 于是，约拿跑到城外，在城东为自己搭了一个棚，坐在棚下荫凉处，要看看尼尼微城究竟会怎样。 6 后来，耶和华上帝安排了一棵蓖麻迅速地长起来，为约拿遮荫，使他的头免受日晒。约拿因有这棵蓖麻而非常欢喜。 7 第二天黎明的时候，上帝却安排了一条虫来咬这棵蓖麻，蓖麻就枯萎了。 8 太阳出来的时候，上帝刮起燥热的东风，烈日把约拿晒得发昏，他就再次求死说：“我死了比活着还好！”
9 上帝对约拿说：“你为这棵蓖麻大发脾气合理吗？”约拿回答说：“我就是气死了也合理。” 10 耶和华说：“这棵蓖麻不是你种的，也不是你栽培的，它在一夜之间长成，又在一夜之间死去，你尚且如此爱惜， 11 我怎能不爱惜这尼尼微大城呢？城中单是连左右手都分不清的人就有十二万多，还有许多的牲畜。”
約拿書 4
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
4 這事令約拿十分不悅，非常惱怒。 2 他向耶和華禱告說：「耶和華啊，我在家鄉的時候豈不早就說過你會這樣做嗎？我知道你是一位有恩典、有憐憫的上帝，不輕易發怒，充滿慈愛，不忍心降災，所以我才急速逃往他施。 3 耶和華啊，求你收回我的性命吧，我死了比活著還好！」 4 耶和華對他說：「你這樣大發脾氣合理嗎？」
5 於是，約拿跑到城外，在城東為自己搭了一個棚，坐在棚下蔭涼處，要看看尼尼微城究竟會怎樣。 6 後來，耶和華上帝安排了一棵蓖麻迅速地長起來，為約拿遮蔭，使他的頭免受日曬。約拿因有這棵蓖麻而非常歡喜。 7 第二天黎明的時候，上帝卻安排了一條蟲來咬這棵蓖麻，蓖麻就枯萎了。 8 太陽出來的時候，上帝颳起燥熱的東風，烈日把約拿曬得發昏，他就再次求死說：「我死了比活著還好！」
9 上帝對約拿說：「你為這棵蓖麻大發脾氣合理嗎？」約拿回答說：「我就是氣死了也合理。」 10 耶和華說：「這棵蓖麻不是你種的，也不是你栽培的，它在一夜之間長成，又在一夜之間死去，你尚且如此愛惜， 11 我怎能不愛惜這尼尼微大城呢？城中單是連左右手都分不清的人就有十二萬多，還有許多的牲畜。」
Jonah 4
Living Bible
4 This change of plans made Jonah very angry. 2 He complained to the Lord about it: “This is exactly what I thought you’d do, Lord, when I was there in my own country and you first told me to come here. That’s why I ran away to Tarshish. For I knew you were a gracious God, merciful, slow to get angry, and full of kindness; I knew how easily you could cancel your plans for destroying these people.
3 “Please kill me, Lord; I’d rather be dead than alive when nothing that I told them happens.[a]”
4 Then the Lord said, “Is it right to be angry about this?”
5 So Jonah went out and sat sulking[b] on the east side of the city, and he made a leafy shelter to shade him as he waited there to see if anything would happen to the city. 6 And when the leaves of the shelter withered in the heat, the Lord arranged for a vine to grow up quickly and spread its broad leaves over Jonah’s head to shade him. This made him comfortable and very grateful.
7 But God also prepared a worm! The next morning the worm ate through the stem of the plant, so that it withered away and died.
8 Then when the sun was hot, God ordered a scorching east wind to blow on Jonah, and the sun beat down upon his head until he grew faint and wished to die. For he said, “Death is better than this!”
9 And God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry because the plant died?”
“Yes,” Jonah said, “it is; it is right for me to be angry enough to die!”
10 Then the Lord said, “You feel sorry for yourself when your shelter is destroyed, though you did no work to put it there, and it is, at best, short-lived. 11 And why shouldn’t I feel sorry for a great city like Nineveh with its 120,000 people in utter spiritual darkness[c] and all its cattle?”
Footnotes
- Jonah 4:3 when nothing that I told them happens, implied.
- Jonah 4:5 sat sulking, implied.
- Jonah 4:11 with its 120,000 people in utter spiritual darkness, or “with its 120,000 children who don’t know their right hands from their left.”
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