Jonah’s Anger at the LORD’s Compassion
Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry. 1 Jon 4:9Luk 15:28Mat 20:15Jon 4:4Jas 4:5-6Luk 7:39Act 13:46 So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster. Psa 86:15Exo 34:6-7Num 14:18-19Jol 2:13-14Psa 145:8Mic 7:18Psa 86:5Exo 32:14 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” 1Ki 19:4Ecc 7:1Jer 20:14-18Num 11:15Jon 4:8Num 20:31Co 9:15Job 3:20-21
But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?” Mat 20:15Jon 4:9Psa 106:32-33Jas 1:19-20Mic 6:3Num 20:11-12Num 20:24
Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city. 1Ki 19:91Ki 19:13Gen 19:27-28Isa 57:17Jer 17:15-16Jer 20:9Jon 1:5Luk 19:41-44 So the LORD God appointed a vine, 2 and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant. Psa 103:10-141Co 7:30Est 5:9Isa 39:2Jon 1:17Luk 10:20Amo 6:13Pro 23:5
When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered. Jol 1:12Psa 90:5-6Isa 40:6-8Job 1:21Psa 102:10Psa 30:6-7
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.” Jon 4:3Psa 121:6Ezk 19:12Isa 49:10Rev 3:19Rev 7:161Sa 3:182Sa 15:25-26
Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” Gen 4:5-14Jdg 16:16Job 18:4Job 40:4-5Job 5:22Co 7:10Mat 26:38Rev 9:6
“I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night. 1Sa 20:31Gen 17:12 So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?” Mat 18:33Luk 15:28-32Jon 1:2Psa 145:8-9Psa 36:6Deu 1:39Isa 1:18Psa 104:14