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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "And Jonah was exceedingly troubled, and was angry:",
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.",
      "citation": "Jonas 4:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of the city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall the city.",
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonah, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonah was exceeding glad of the ivy.",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "And the Lord said to Jonah: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "And shall I not spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons, that know how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?",
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