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When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

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

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The sun shall not strike you by day
    nor the moon by night.(A)

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19 I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.(A)

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12 But it was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
    its fruit was stripped off;
its strong stem was withered;
    the fire consumed it.(A)

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10 they shall not hunger or thirst,
    neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them down,
for he who has pity on them will lead them
    and by springs of water will guide them.(A)

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16 They will hunger no more and thirst no more;
    the sun will not strike them,
    nor any scorching heat,(A)

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The Lord God appointed a bush and made it come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort, so Jonah was very happy about the bush. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered.

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17 [a]But the Lord provided a large fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.17 2.1 in Heb

But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a mighty storm came upon the sea that the ship threatened to break up.(A)

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I am silent; I do not open my mouth,
    for it is you who have done it.(A)

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10 But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.(A)

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