Jonas 4
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Nagalit si Jonas Dahil sa Pagkahabag ng Diyos
4 Ngunit dahil dito, nalungkot si Jonas at siya'y nagalit sapagkat hindi niya nagustuhan ang pagpapatawad ng Diyos sa Nineve. 2 Kaya't(A) siya'y nanalangin, “O Yahweh, hindi ba bago pa ako magpunta rito ay sinabi kong ganito nga ang gagawin ninyo? At ito ang dahilan kaya ako tumakas patungong Tarsis! Alam kong kayo ay Diyos na mahabagin at mapagmahal, hindi madaling magalit at wagas ang pag-ibig. Alam kong lagi kayong handang magpatawad. 3 Mabuti(B) pang mamatay na lang ako, Yahweh. Mas gugustuhin ko pang mamatay kaysa mabuhay.”
4 Sumagot si Yahweh, “Anong ikinagagalit mo, Jonas?” 5 Pagkasabi nito, lumakad si Jonas papunta sa silangan ng lunsod at naupo. Gumawa siya ng isang silungan at doon hinintay kung ano ang mangyayari sa lunsod. 6 Pinatubo ng Diyos na si Yahweh sa may tabi ni Jonas ang isang malagong halaman na nagbibigay ng lilim sa kanya. Labis naman itong ikinagalak ni Jonas. 7 Ngunit kinabukasan, ang halaman ay ipinasira ng Diyos sa isang uod at ito'y natuyo. 8 Sumikat nang matindi ang araw at umihip ang nakakapasong hangin; halos mahilo si Jonas sa tindi ng init. Kaya sinabi niya, “Mabuti pang mamatay na ako.”
9 Sinabi sa kanya ng Diyos, “Dapat ka bang magalit dahil sa nangyari sa halaman?”
Sumagot siya, “Opo, nagagalit po ako. Gusto ko nang mamatay.”
10 Sinabi ni Yahweh, “Tumubo ang halamang iyon, lumago sa loob ng magdamag, at namatay kinabukasan. Wala kang hirap diyan ngunit nalungkot ka nang iyan ay mamatay. 11 Ako pa kaya ang hindi malulungkot sa kalagayan ng Nineve? Ito'y isang malaking lunsod na tinitirhan ng mahigit na 120,000 taong hindi alam kung ano ang mabuti o ang masama, bukod pa sa maraming kawan!”
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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