Jonah

Chapter 4

1 BUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was greatly grieved.

2 And he prayed to the LORD and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient and of great kindness, and thou art ready to turn away calamity.

3 Therefore now, O my LORD, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

4 Then the LORD said to him, Are you very sorrowful?

5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made a booth for himself, and sat under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.

6 And the LORD God commanded a tender shoot of gourd to spring up, and it sprang up and came over Jonah, and became a shade over his head, and comforted him of his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the gourd.

7 But the next day at dawn, God commanded a worm, and it smote the gourd so that it withered.

8 And it came to pass when the sun arose, the LORD God commanded a sultry east wind; and it withered the gourd, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he was weary and wished that he might die, and said, O LORD, you can take my life from me, for I am not better than my fathers.

9 And the LORD God said to Jonah, Are you exceedingly grieved over the gourd? And Jonah said, I am exceedingly grieved, even unto death.

10 Then the LORD said to him, You have had pity on the gourd for the which you did not labor nor did you make it to grow; which sprung up in a night and withered in a night;

11 And should not I have pity upon Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand,: and also much cattle?

約拿書

第4章

1 這事約拿大大不悅,且甚發怒,

2 就禱告耶和華說:「耶和華啊,我在本國求你[pray thee]的時候豈不是這樣說嗎?我知道你是有恩典、有憐憫的神,不輕易發怒,有豐盛的慈愛,並且後悔不降所說的災,所以我急速逃往他施去。

3 耶和華啊,現在求你取我的命吧。因為我死了比活著還好。」

4 耶和華說:「你這樣發怒合乎理嗎?」

5 於是約拿出城,坐在城的東邊,在那裏為自己搭了一座棚,坐在棚的蔭下,要看看那城究竟如何。

6 耶和華神安排一棵葫蘆[gourd],使其生長[come up]高過約拿,影兒遮蓋他的頭,救他脫離苦楚;約拿因這棵葫蘆[gourd]大大喜樂。

7 次日早上[morning],神卻安排一條蟲子咬這葫蘆[gourd],以致枯槁。

8 日頭出來的時候,神安排炎熱的東風,日頭曝曬約拿的頭,使他發昏,他就為自己求死,說:「我死了比活著還好。」

9 神對約拿說:「你因這棵葫蘆[gourd]發怒合乎理嗎?」他說:「我發怒以至於死,都合乎理。」

10 耶和華說:「這葫蘆[gourd]不是你栽種的,也不是你培養的;一夜長出[came up],一夜乾死,你尚且愛惜;

11 何況這尼尼微大城,其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二萬多人,並有許多牲畜,我豈能不愛惜呢?」

Jonah

Chapter 4

約拿書

第4章

1 BUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was greatly grieved.

1 這事約拿大大不悅,且甚發怒,

2 And he prayed to the LORD and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient and of great kindness, and thou art ready to turn away calamity.

2 就禱告耶和華說:「耶和華啊,我在本國求你[pray thee]的時候豈不是這樣說嗎?我知道你是有恩典、有憐憫的神,不輕易發怒,有豐盛的慈愛,並且後悔不降所說的災,所以我急速逃往他施去。

3 Therefore now, O my LORD, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

3 耶和華啊,現在求你取我的命吧。因為我死了比活著還好。」

4 Then the LORD said to him, Are you very sorrowful?

4 耶和華說:「你這樣發怒合乎理嗎?」

5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made a booth for himself, and sat under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.

5 於是約拿出城,坐在城的東邊,在那裏為自己搭了一座棚,坐在棚的蔭下,要看看那城究竟如何。

6 And the LORD God commanded a tender shoot of gourd to spring up, and it sprang up and came over Jonah, and became a shade over his head, and comforted him of his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the gourd.

6 耶和華神安排一棵葫蘆[gourd],使其生長[come up]高過約拿,影兒遮蓋他的頭,救他脫離苦楚;約拿因這棵葫蘆[gourd]大大喜樂。

7 But the next day at dawn, God commanded a worm, and it smote the gourd so that it withered.

7 次日早上[morning],神卻安排一條蟲子咬這葫蘆[gourd],以致枯槁。

8 And it came to pass when the sun arose, the LORD God commanded a sultry east wind; and it withered the gourd, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he was weary and wished that he might die, and said, O LORD, you can take my life from me, for I am not better than my fathers.

8 日頭出來的時候,神安排炎熱的東風,日頭曝曬約拿的頭,使他發昏,他就為自己求死,說:「我死了比活著還好。」

9 And the LORD God said to Jonah, Are you exceedingly grieved over the gourd? And Jonah said, I am exceedingly grieved, even unto death.

9 神對約拿說:「你因這棵葫蘆[gourd]發怒合乎理嗎?」他說:「我發怒以至於死,都合乎理。」

10 Then the LORD said to him, You have had pity on the gourd for the which you did not labor nor did you make it to grow; which sprung up in a night and withered in a night;

10 耶和華說:「這葫蘆[gourd]不是你栽種的,也不是你培養的;一夜長出[came up],一夜乾死,你尚且愛惜;

11 And should not I have pity upon Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand,: and also much cattle?

11 何況這尼尼微大城,其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二萬多人,並有許多牲畜,我豈能不愛惜呢?」