Yunus 4

¹Ve Yunus büyük bir kederle sarsıldı ve aklı allak bullak oldu.

²Rab'be dua edip şöyle dedi: "Ah Rab, ben henüz kendi ülkemdeyken söylediğim sözler bunlar değil miydi? İşte bu yüzden önceden davranıp Tarşiş'e kaçmaya çalıştım; çünkü senin merhametli ve şefkatli, sabırlı, sevgisi bol ve felaketler karşısında kararından dönen bir Tanrı olduğunu biliyordum.

³Ve şimdi, ey Egemen Rab, lütfen canımı benden al; çünkü benim için ölmek yaşamaktan daha iyidir."

⁴Ve Rab, "Çok mu kederlendin?" dedi.

⁵Bunun üzerine Yunus kentten çıktı ve kentin karşısında bir yerde oturdu; orada kendisi için geçici bir gölgelik yaptı ve kentte ne olacağını görene kadar onun gölgesinde oturdu.

⁶Ve Rab Tanrı bir kabak bitkisi sağladı ve Yunus'un başının üzerinde yükseltti; öyle ki, başının üzerinde bir gölge olsun ve onu sıkıntılarından korusun. Yunus bu kabak bitkisinden ötürü büyük bir sevinçle sevindi.

⁷Ancak ertesi günün şafağında Tanrı bir kurtçuk sağladı; kurtçuk kabak bitkisini kemirdi ve bitki kurudu.

⁸Güneşin doğmasıyla birlikte Tanrı yakıp kavuran yakıcı bir rüzgar gönderdi; güneş Yunus'un başına vurunca Yunus'un canı çekildi ve kendi canından vazgeçerek, "Ölmek benim için yaşamaktan daha iyidir" dedi.

⁹Tanrı Yunus'a, "Kabak bitkisi yüzünden böyle çok mu kederlendin?" dedi. Yunus, "Ölesiye kederlenmeye hakkım var!" dedi.

¹⁰Ve Rab şöyle dedi: "Sen, uğruna acı çekmediğin, büyütmediğin, bir gecede var olup bir gecede yok olan bir kabak bitkisine acıdın.

¹¹Öyleyse ben, sağını solunu ayırt edemeyen yüz yirmi binden fazla insanın ve pek çok hayvanın yaşadığı o büyük kent Nineve'ye acımayayım mı?"

¹ΚΑΙ ἐλυπήθη Ἰωνᾶς λύπην μεγάλην καὶ συνεχύθη,

²καὶ προσηύξατο πρὸς Κύριον καὶ εἶπεν· Ὦ Κύριε, οὐχ οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι μου ἔτι ὄντος μου ἐν τῇ γῇ μου; διὰ τοῦτο προέφθασα τοῦ φυγεῖν εἰς Θαρσίς, διότι ἔγνων ὅτι σὺ ἐλεήμων καὶ οἰκτίρμων, μακρόθυμος καὶ πολυέλεος καὶ μετανοῶν ἐπὶ ταῖς κακίαις.

³καὶ νῦν, δέσποτα Κύριε, λάβε τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι καλὸν τὸ ἀποθανεῖν με μᾶλλον, ἢ ζῆν με.

⁴καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Ἰωνᾶν· εἰ σφόδρα λελύπησαι σύ;

⁵καὶ ἐξῆλθεν Ἰωνᾶς ἐκ τῆς πόλεως καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἀπέναντι τῆς πόλεως· καὶ ἐποίησεν ἑαυτῷ ἐκεῖ σκηνὴν καὶ ἐκάθητο ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς, ἕως οὗ ἀπίδῃ τί ἔσται τῇ πόλει.

⁶καὶ προσέταξε Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς κολοκύνθῃ, καὶ ἀνέβη ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ τοῦ εἶναι σκιὰν ὑπεράνω τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ τοῦ σκιάζειν αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τῶν κακῶν αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐχάρη Ἰωνᾶς ἐπὶ τῇ κολοκύνθῃ χαρὰν μεγάλην.

⁷καὶ προσέταξεν ὁ Θεὸς σκώληκι ἑωθινῇ τῇ ἐπαύριον, καὶ ἐπάταξε τὴν κολοκύνθαν, καὶ ἀπεξηράνθη.

⁸καὶ ἐγένετο ἅμα τῷ ἀνατεῖλαι τὸν ἥλιον καὶ προσέταξεν ὁ Θεὸς πνεύματι καύσωνι συγκαίοντι, καὶ ἐπάταξεν ὁ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ· καὶ ὠλιγοψύχησε καὶ ἐπελέγετο τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπε· καλόν μοι ἀποθανεῖν με ἢ ζῆν.

⁹καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς Ἰωνᾶν· εἰ σφόδρα λελύπησαι σὺ ἐπὶ τῇ κολοκύνθῃ; καὶ εἶπε· σφόδρα λελύπημαι ἐγὼ ἕως θανάτου.

¹⁰καὶ εἶπε Κύριος· σὺ ἐφείσω ὑπὲρ τῆς κολοκύνθης, ὑπὲρ ἧς οὐκ ἐκακοπάθησας ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν οὐδὲ ἐξέθρεψας αὐτήν, ἣ ἐγενήθη ὑπὸ νύκτα καὶ ὑπὸ νύκτα ἀπώλετο.

¹¹ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ φείσομαι ὑπὲρ Νινευὴ τῆς πόλεως τῆς μεγάλης, ἐν ᾗ κατοικοῦσι πλείους ἢ δώδεκα μυριάδες ἀνθρώπων, οἵτινες οὐκ ἔγνωσαν δεξιὰν αὐτῶν ἢ ἀριστερὰν αὐτῶν, καὶ κτήνη πολλά

¹But Jonas was very deeply grieved, and he was confounded.

²And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? therefore I made haste to flee to Tharsis; because I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentest of evil.

³And now, Lord God, take my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

⁴And the Lord said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved?

⁵And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.

⁶And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.

⁷And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it smote the gourd, and it withered away.

⁸And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun smote on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live.

⁹And God said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.

¹⁰And the Lord said, Thou hadst pity on the gourd, for which thou has not suffered, neither didst thou rear it; which came up before night, and perished before [another] night:

¹¹and shall not I spare Nineve, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and [also] much cattle?