8And 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.
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Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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