 | John Foster - 1847 - 500 Seiten
...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;" which seems to amount to this,—he felt in danger of being disgraced as a prophet, the denunciation... | |
 | 1847 - 586 Seiten
...his fellow-sinners. " Therefore," he says, "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." " A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." At one moment Jonah is praying, at another moment... | |
 | 1848 - 592 Seiten
...or anguish of trouble impresses such a sense, and utters itself in such language as that, " Now, О Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than live." " My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than life." The very fear of troubles, that... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1847 - 564 Seiten
...repenteth him of the evil. Jonah 4 : 2 Therefore 1 fled before unto Tarshish : for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thce of the evil. Lk. 6 : 35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again... | |
 | Thomas Adams - 1848 - 912 Seiten
...thou heardest my voice," chap. ii. '¿. Some days after he begs and sues for death : " Take, О Lord, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than to live," chap. iv. 3. Because Jezebel pursues him in the world, therefore Elijah must needs out of the... | |
 | Boccaccini - 2002 - 252 Seiten
...world where there is no justice: "I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful . . . please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live" (Jonah 4:2-3). The recognition that God is not bound by any pronouncement, even pronouncements... | |
 | Liturgy Training Publications - 2001 - 944 Seiten
...gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, rich in clemency, loathe to punish. And now, LORD, please take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." But the LORD asked, "Have you reason to be angry?" Jonah then left the city for a place to the... | |
 | Terry-Anne Golko, Terry-Anne Preston - 2001 - 196 Seiten
...(4:2). The next minute, he is angry at God's seeming lack of concern about him: "O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live" (4:3). He does not seem to realize at all that God loved the Ninevites too — so much so that... | |
 | Patricia McCarthy - 2001 - 170 Seiten
...merciful God, slow to anger, rich in clemency, loathe ro punish. And now, LORD, please take my lite from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." But the Lord asked, "Have you reason to be angry?" Jonah then lefr the city for a place to the... | |
 | Randall Jarrell - 2002 - 404 Seiten
...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...life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." Then said the Lord, "Doest thou well to be angry?" So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on... | |
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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. Therefore now, O Lord, take, I... 
