| 1 فَغَمَّ ذلِكَ يُونَانَ غَمًّا شَدِيدًا، فَاغْتَاظَ. | 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. |
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| 2 وَصَلَّى إِلَى الرَّبِّ وَقَالَ: «آهِ يَا رَبُّ، أَلَيْسَ هذَا كَلاَمِي إِذْ كُنْتُ بَعْدُ فِي أَرْضِي؟ لِذلِكَ بَادَرْتُ إِلَى الْهَرَبِ إِلَى تَرْشِيشَ، لأَنِّي عَلِمْتُ أَنَّكَ إِلهٌ رَؤُوفٌ وَرَحِيمٌ بَطِيءُ الْغَضَبِ وَكَثِيرُ الرَّحْمَةِ وَنَادِمٌ عَلَى الشَّرِّ. | 2 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. |
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| 3 فَالآنَ يَا رَبُّ، خُذْ نَفْسِي مِنِّي، لأَنَّ مَوْتِي خَيْرٌ مِنْ حَيَاتِي». | 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. |
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| 4 فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ: «هَلِ اغْتَظْتَ بِالصَّوَابِ؟». | 4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? |
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| 5 وَخَرَجَ يُونَانُ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَجَلَسَ شَرْقِيَّ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَصَنَعَ لِنَفْسِهِ هُنَاكَ مَظَلَّةً وَجَلَسَ تَحْتَهَا فِي الظِّلِّ، حَتَّى يَرَى مَاذَا يَحْدُثُ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ. | 5 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. |
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| 6 فَأَعَدَّ الرَّبُّ الإِلهُ يَقْطِينَةً فَارْتَفَعَتْ فَوْقَ يُونَانَ لِتَكُونَ ظِلاُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ، لِكَيْ يُخَلِّصَهُ مِنْ غَمِّهِ. فَفَرِحَ يُونَانُ مِنْ أَجْلِ الْيَقْطِينَةِ فَرَحًا عَظِيمًا. | 6 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. |
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| 7 ثُمَّ أَعَدَّ اللهُ دُودَةً عِنْدَ طُلُوعِ الْفَجْرِ في الْغَدِ، فَضَرَبَتِ الْيَقْطِينَةَ فَيَبِسَتْ. | 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. |
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| 8 وَحَدَثَ عِنْدَ طُلُوعِ الشَّمْسِ أَنَّ اللهَ أَعَدَّ رِيحًا شَرْقِيَّةً حَارَّةً، فَضَرَبَتِ الشَّمْسُ عَلَى رَأْسِ يُونَانَ فَذَبُلَ. فَطَلَبَ لِنَفْسِهِ الْمَوْتَ، وَقَالَ: «مَوْتِي خَيْرٌ مِنْ حَيَاتِي». | 8 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. |
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| 9 فَقَالَ اللهُ لِيُونَانَ: «هَلِ اغْتَظْتَ بِالصَّوَابِ مِنْ أَجْلِ الْيَقْطِينَةِ؟» فَقَالَ: «اغْتَظْتُ بِالصَّوَابِ حَتَّى الْمَوْتِ». | 9 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. |
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| 10 فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ: «أَنْتَ شَفِقْتَ عَلَى الْيَقْطِينَةِ الَّتِي لَمْ تَتْعَبْ فِيهَا وَلاَ رَبَّيْتَهَا، الَّتِي بِنْتَ لَيْلَةٍ كَانَتْ وَبِنْتَ لَيْلَةٍ هَلَكَتْ. | 10 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: |
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| 11 أَفَلاَ أَشْفَقُ أَنَا عَلَى نِينَوَى الْمَدِينَةِ الْعَظِيمَةِ الَّتِي يُوجَدُ فِيهَا أَكْثَرُ مِنِ اثْنَتَيْ عَشَرَةَ رِبْوَةً مِنَ النَّاسِ الَّذِينَ لاَ يَعْرِفُونَ يَمِينَهُمْ مِنْ شِمَالِهِمْ، وَبَهَائِمُ كَثِيرَةٌ؟». | 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? |
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