约拿书 4:1 · Jonah 4:1
这事约拿大大不悦，且甚发怒，
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
约拿书第 4 章
Jonah 4 · King James Version
英王钦定本圣经 · 简体 · 上帝版 · 共 11 节
约拿书 4:2 · Jonah 4:2
就祷告 耶和华说：「 耶和华啊，我在本国求你的时候岂不是这样说吗？我知道你是有恩典丶有怜悯的 上帝，不轻易发怒，有丰盛的慈爱，并且後悔不降所说的灾，所以我急速逃往他施去。
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.
约拿书 4:3 · Jonah 4:3
耶和华啊，现在求你取我的命吧。因为我死了比活着还好。」
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.
约拿书 4:4 · Jonah 4:4
耶和华说：「你这样发怒合乎理吗？」
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
约拿书 4:5 · Jonah 4:5
於是约拿出城，坐在城的东边，在那里为自己搭了一座棚，坐在棚的荫下，要看看那城究竟如何。
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.
约拿书 4:6 · Jonah 4:6
耶和华神安排一棵葫芦，使其生长高过约拿，影儿遮盖他的头，救他脱离苦楚；约拿因这棵葫芦大大喜乐。
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.
约拿书 4:7 · Jonah 4:7
次日早上， 上帝却安排一条虫子咬这葫芦，以致枯槁。
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
约拿书 4:8 · Jonah 4:8
日头出来的时候， 上帝安排炎热的东风，日头曝晒约拿的头，使他发昏，他就为自己求死，说：「我死了比活着还好。」
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.
约拿书 4:9 · Jonah 4:9
上帝对约拿说：「你因这棵葫芦发怒合乎理吗？」他说：「我发怒以至於死，都合乎理。」
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.
约拿书 4:10 · Jonah 4:10
耶和华说：「这葫芦不是你栽种的，也不是你培养的；一夜长出，一夜乾死，你尚且爱惜；
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:
约拿书 4:11 · Jonah 4:11
何况这尼尼微大城，其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二万多人，并有许多牲畜，我岂能不爱惜呢？」
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?