Jonah:Chapter 4
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| 1約納因此很不高興，遂發起怒來。 | 1But Jonah was greatly displeased at this, and he was indignant. |
| 2他懇求天主說：「上主，當我還在故鄉時，我豈不是已想到這事？所以，我預先要逃往塔爾史士去，因為我知道你是慈悲的，寬仁的天主；是緩於發怒，富於慈愛，憐憫而不願降災禍的天主。 | 2He prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, is this not what I said when I was yet in my own country? This is why I fled to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and full of love, and you relent from imposing terrible punishment. |
| 3上主，現在，求你從我身上收去我的性命，因為，我死了比活着還好！」 | 3I beseech you now, Yahweh, to take my life, for now it is better for me to die than to live." |
| 4上主說：「你的忿怒合理嗎？」 | 4But Yahweh replied, "What right have you to be angry?" |
| 5約納出了城，坐在城東，在那裏為自己搭了一個棚，坐在棚蔭下，要看看那城究竟要發生什麼事。 | 5Jonah then left the city. He went to a place east of it, built himself a shelter and sat under its shade to wait and see what would happen to Nineveh. |
| 6上主天主安排了一株蓖麻，使它長的高過約納，為他的頭遮蔭，消除他的煩惱。約納很喜愛這株蓖麻。 | 6Then Yahweh God provided a castor-oil plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade over his head and to ease his discomfort. Jonah was very happy about the plant. |
| 7但第二天曙光升起時，天主安排了一個蟲子咬死蓖麻，蓖麻便枯萎了。 | 7But the next day, at dawn, God sent a worm which attacked the plant and made it wither. |
| 8當太陽升起時，天主又安排了炎熱的東風，太陽射在約納頭上，使他無法忍受，遂要求死去，說：「我死了比活着還好！」 | 8When the sun rose, God sent a scorching east wind; the sun blazed down upon Jonah's head, and he grew faint. His death wish returned and he said, "It is better for me to die than to live." |
| 9天主向約納說：「你為這株蓖麻發怒合理嗎？」他回答說：「我發怒以至於死，是合理的！」 | 9Then God asked Jonah, "Do you have a right to be angry about the castor-oil plant?" Jonah answered, "I am right to be angry enough to wish to die." |
| 10上主說：「你為這株蓖麻，並沒有勞過力，也沒有使它生長，還憐惜它：它不過是一夜生出，一夜死去的植物； | 10Yahweh said, "You are concerned about a plant which cost you no labor to make it grow. Overnight it sprang up, and overnight it perished. |
| 11對尼尼微這座大城，其中有十二萬多不能分辨自己左右手的人，且有許多牲畜，我就不該憐惜他們麼？」 | 11But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot distinguish right from left and they have many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned for such a great city?" |
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