Jonah 4:1

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly; and he was wroth.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

In Context

2And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my word, while I was yet in my own country? Therefore made I haste to fly unto Tharshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentant of the evil.

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Cross References

Jonah 4:9And God said unto Jonah, Art thou very wroth for the gourd? And he said, I am very wroth, even unto death.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 4:1

We read, with a great deal of pleasure, in the close of the foregoing chapter, concerning the repentance of Nineveh; but in this chapter we read, with a great deal of uneasiness, concerning the sin of Jonah; and, as there is joy in heaven and earth for the conversion of sinners, so there is grief for the follies and infirmities of saints. In all the book of God we scarcely find a "servant of the Lord" (and such a one we are sure Jonah was, for the scripture calls him so) so very much out of temper as he is here,… Read the whole commentary →

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