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1 Therefore it displeased Ionah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, & merciful, slow to anger, & of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill. 3 Therefore nowe O Lorde, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die then to liue. 4 Then saide the Lorde, Doest thou well to be angry? Jonah 4:1-4, Geneva Bible of 1587. Public domain.
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