Jonah 4:8
Hebrew Text— Jonah 4:8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”
but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”
I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the beds where it grew.” ’ ”
Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”
They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.
You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,
The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified among you. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have executed judgments in her, and am sanctified in her.
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh.
It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled. Their stature was exalted among the thick boughs. They were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.
When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;
The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.