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Jona 4
Het Boek
Jona 4
Het Boek
Jona krijgt spijt bij het zien van Gods genade
4 Jona was echter woedend dat God van gedachten was veranderd. 2 Hij beklaagde zich erover bij de Here en zei in zijn gebed: ‘Dit is nu precies wat ik dacht dat U zou gaan doen, Here, toen ik nog thuis was en U mij opdroeg hierheen te gaan. Daarom vluchtte ik naar Tarsis. Want ik wist dat U een genadig en barmhartig God bent. U wordt niet snel boos en bent erg vriendelijk, ik wist hoe gemakkelijk U ertoe zou kunnen besluiten af te zien van het plan deze mensen te vernietigen. 3 Dood mij alstublieft, Here, ik ben liever dood dan levend.’
4 Maar de Here zei: ‘Is het wel juist dat u hierover zo kwaad bent?’
5 Jona verliet de stad en zocht een plaats ten oosten van de stad. Hij maakte van bladeren een dak om voor schaduw te zorgen, terwijl hij zat te wachten of er iets met de stad ging gebeuren. 6 Nu zorgde de Here voor een wonder, Hij liet een boom snel opgroeien om Jona schaduw te geven en om zo zijn boosheid weg te nemen. Dat stemde Jona blij en dankbaar. 7 Maar God zorgde ook voor een worm! De volgende morgen, toen het licht begon te worden, at het dier zich door de stengel van de boom, zodat deze verwelkte en stierf. 8 Toen de zon flink begon te steken, liet God een hete oostenwind over Jona heenwaaien. De zon brandde met haar stralen zo op zijn hoofd dat hij er duizelig van werd en naar de dood verlangde. Vertwijfeld zei hij: ‘De dood is beter dan dit!’ 9 Toen zei God tegen Jona: ‘Is het juist dat u kwaad bent over deze boom?’ ‘Ja,’ zei Jona, ‘dat is het zeker, U ziet het goed. Ik ben zo kwaad dat ik er haast dood aan ga!’ 10 Toen zei de Here: ‘U hebt medelijden met uzelf omdat die beschermende plant is gestorven, ook al was het niet uw werk dat hij daar kwam en hem een kort leven was beschoren. 11 Waarom zou Ik dan geen medelijden voelen met die grote stad met meer dan honderdtwintigduizend mensen, die zich nergens van bewust zijn, nog afgezien van al die onschuldige dieren?’
Jona 4
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Jona 4
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Jonina ljutnja i Božja dobrota
4 Joni to nije bilo drago pa se jako naljutio. 2 Pomolio se BOGU: »O, BOŽE, dok sam još bio u svojoj zemlji, znao sam da će baš tako biti! Zato sam i pobjegao u Taršiš. Znao sam da si milosrdan i suosjećajan Bog, strpljiv i pun ljubavi. Čak i kad odlučiš nekoga kazniti, spreman si od toga odustati. 3 Zato mi sad, BOŽE, oduzmi život—radije bih umro nego živio.«
4 BOG ga je upitao: »Imaš li se pravo ljutiti?«
5 Jona je otišao istočno od grada, napravio ondje zaklon i sjeo u hlad. Čekao je da vidi što će biti s gradom.
Jona ostaje bez hlada
6 Tada BOG učini da pokraj Jone izraste velika biljka[a], da bi mu glava bila u hladu i da bi mu bilo udobnije. Jona joj se veoma razveselio. 7 Sutradan ujutro Bog je poslao crva da podgrize biljku pa se ona osušila. 8 Kako se sunce dizalo, Bog je poslao vrući istočni vjetar. Sunce je Joni pržilo glavu pa je malaksao i poželio umrijeti. Izjavio je: »Radije bih umro nego živio!«
Božja pouka
9 Bog zatim upita Jonu: »Imaš li se pravo ljutiti zbog biljke?«
»Imam«, odgovori Jona. »Mogao bih umrijeti od ljutnje.«
10 BOG reče: »Toliko ti je stalo do te biljke, koju nisi njegovao niti se trudio oko nje, koja je niknula i uvenula preko noći. 11 Pa kako da meni ne bude stalo do velikoga grada Ninive. Ondje ima više od stotinu i dvadeset tisuća ljudi koji ne razlikuju dobro od zla[b], kao i mnoštvo njihove stoke!«
Footnotes
- 4,6 velika biljka S obzirom na izvornu hebrejsku riječ, najvjerojatnije je riječ o ricinusovom grmolikom drvetu, koje može narasti vrlo veliko. Ta biljka i njezini plodovi su otrovni, što može biti slika Joninog stava.
- 4,11 ne razlikuju dobro od zla Doslovno: »ne razlikuju lijevu ruku od desne«. Najvjerojatnije taj se izraz odnosi na djecu, što bi značilo da je u Ninivi bilo više od sto dvadeset tisuća djece.
Jonah 4
New International Version
Jonah 4
New International Version
Jonah’s Anger at the Lord’s Compassion
4 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry.(A) 2 He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew(B) that you are a gracious(C) and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love,(D) a God who relents(E) from sending calamity.(F) 3 Now, Lord, take away my life,(G) for it is better for me to die(H) than to live.”(I)
4 But the Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”(J)
5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. 6 Then the Lord God provided(K) a leafy plant[a] and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant. 7 But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered.(L) 8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die,(M) and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”
9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”(N)
“It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”
10 But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 And should I not have concern(O) for the great city of Nineveh,(P) in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
Footnotes
- Jonah 4:6 The precise identification of this plant is uncertain; also in verses 7, 9 and 10.
Jonah 4
King James Version
Jonah 4
King James Version
4 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2 And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
3 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
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