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The Lord replied, “Does being angry make you right?”

Jonah’s Discouragement

Then Jonah left the city and sat down on the eastern side.[a] There he made a shelter for himself and sat down under its shade to see what would happen to the city. The Lord God prepared a vine plant,[b] and it grew over Jonah to shade his head and provide relief from his misery. Jonah was happy—indeed, he was ecstatic—about the vine plant.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 4:5 Lit. down east of the city
  2. Jonah 4:6 Or castor bean plant; or gourd; and so throughout the chapter