Prophetia Ionae

Ionae, chapter 4, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 4 Vulgate

   1 Et afflictus est Ionas afflictione magna et iratus est;
   2 et oravit ad Dominum et dixit: "Obsecro, Domine, numquid non hoc est verbum meum, cum adhuc essem in terra mea? Propter hoc praeoccupavi ut fugerem in Tharsis. Sciebam enim quia tu Deus clemens et misericors es, longanimis et multae miserationis et ignoscens super malitia.
   3 Et nunc, Domine, tolle, quaeso, animam meam a me, quia melior est mihi mors quam vita".
   4 Et dixit Dominus: "Putasne bene irasceris tu?".
   5 Et egressus est Ionas de civitate et sedit contra orientem civitatis et fecit sibimet umbraculum ibi et sedebat subter illud in umbra, donec videret quid accideret in civitate.
   6 Et praeparavit Dominus Deus hederam, et ascendit super Ionam, ut esset umbra super caput eius et protegeret eum ab afflictione sua. Et laetatus est Ionas super hedera laetitia magna.
   7 Et paravit Deus vermem, cum surgeret aurora in crastinum, et percussit hederam, quae exaruit.
   8 Et, cum ortus fuisset sol, praecepit Deus vento orientali calido; et percussit sol super caput Ionae, et elanguit; et petivit animae suae, ut moreretur, et dixit: "Melius est mihi mori quam vivere "
   9 Et dixit Deus ad Ionam: "Putasne bene irasceris tu super hedera?". Et dixit: "Bene irascor ego usque ad mortem".
   10 Et dixit Dominus: "Tu doles super hederam, in qua non laborasti neque fecisti, ut cresceret, quae sub una nocte nata est et sub una nocte periit.
   11 Et ego non parcam Nineve civitati magnae, in qua sunt plus quam centum viginti milia hominum, qui nesciunt quid sit inter dexteram et sinistram suam, et iumenta multa?".

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
   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.
   3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
   4 ¶ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
   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.
   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.
   7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
   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.
   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.
   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:
   11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?