5So 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.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 5-11)Jonah persists here in his discontent; for the beginning of strife both with God and man is as the letting forth of waters , the breach grows wider and wider, and, when passion gets head, bad is made worse; it should therefore be silenced and suppressed at first. We have here, I. Jonah’s sullen expectation of the fate of Nineveh. We may suppose that the Ninevites, giving credit to the message he b...
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