Yunus 4:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dan berdoalah ia kepada TUHAN, katanya: "Ya TUHAN, bukankah telah kukatakan itu, ketika aku masih di negeriku? Itulah sebabnya, maka aku dahulu melarikan diri ke Tarsis, sebab aku tahu, bahwa Engkaulah Allah yang pengasih dan penyayang, yang panjang sabar dan berlimpah kasih setia serta yang menyesal karena malapetaka yang hendak didatangkan-Nya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan berdoalah ia kepada TUHAN, katanya: "Ya TUHAN, bukankah telah kukatakan itu, ketika aku masih di negeriku? Itulah sebabnya, maka aku dahulu melarikan diri ke Tarsis, sebab aku tahu, bahwa Engkaulah Allah yang pengasih dan penyayang, yang panjang sabar dan berlimpah kasih setia serta yang menyesal karena malapetaka yang hendak didatangkan-Nya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu iapun meminta doa kepada Tuhan, sembahnya: Ya Tuhan! bukankah ini yang sudah kukatakan tatkala aku lagi dalam negeriku! maka sebab itu juga aku hendak mendahuluinya dengan lari ke Tarsis, karena kuketahuilah, bahwa Engkau Allah yang amat mengasihani dan amat sayang dan panjang sabarnya dan besar kemurahan-Nya dan yang bersesal akan jahat.

Contextual Overview

¹ And this displeased Ionas greatly, and he was angrye [within him selfe.] ² And he prayed vnto the Lorde, and saide: I pray thee O Lorde, was not this my saying when I was yet in my countrey? therfore I hasted to flee into Tharsis: For I knewe that thou art a gratious God, and mercifull, long suffering, and of great kindnesse, and repentest thee of euill. ³ And nowe O Lorde, take I beseche thee my lyfe from me: for it is better for me to dye, then to lyue. ⁴ Then saide the Lord, Doest thou wel to be angry?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he prayed: 1 Kings 19:4, Jeremiah 20:7

I fled: Jonah 1:3, Luke 10:29

thou art: Exodus 34:6, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18, Numbers 14:19, Psalms 78:38, Psalms 86:5, Psalms 86:15, Psalms 145:8, Hosea 11:8, Hosea 11:9, Joel 2:13, Joel 2:14, Micah 7:18

and of: Jonah 3:10, Exodus 32:14, Psalms 90:13, Jeremiah 18:8, Amos 7:3, Amos 7:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:31 - the Lord Deuteronomy 18:22 - if the thing 1 Samuel 15:11 - repenteth me 2 Samuel 24:14 - for his 1 Chronicles 21:13 - great 1 Chronicles 21:15 - repented him 2 Chronicles 30:9 - the Lord Psalms 103:8 - slow Psalms 135:14 - he will repent Jeremiah 20:16 - repented Jeremiah 26:3 - so Jeremiah 26:13 - repent Jeremiah 42:10 - for I Daniel 9:9 - To the Lord Nahum 1:3 - slow Romans 2:4 - forbearance Ephesians 1:7 - the forgiveness Ephesians 2:4 - who James 5:11 - the Lord is 1 Peter 1:3 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.

Genesis 4:25
Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.

Genesis 4:26
And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.

Genesis 9:20
Noah also began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyarde.

Genesis 37:13
And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: do not thy brethren kepe in Sichem? come, and I wyll sende thee to them.

Genesis 47:3
And Pharao sayd vnto his brethren: what is your occupation? And they aunswered Pharao: thy seruauntes are kepers of cattell, both we, and also our fathers.

Exodus 3:1
Moyses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, priest of Madian: and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the desert, aud came to the mountayne of God Horeb.

Psalms 127:3
Beholde, chyldren be the inheritage of God: and the fruite of the wombe is a rewarde.

Amos 7:15
And the Lorde toke me as I folowed the flocke, and the Lord sayde vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.

Luke 11:51
From the blood of Abel, vnto ye blood of Zacharie, whiche perished betwene the aulter & the temple: Ueryly I saye vnto you, it shalbe required of this nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he prayed unto the Lord,.... But in a very different manner from his praying in the fish's belly: this was a very disorderly prayer, put up in the hurry of his spirit, and in the heat of passion: prayer should be fervent indeed, but not like that of a man in a fever; there should be a warmth and ardour of affection in it, but it should be without wrath, as well as without doubting: this is called a prayer, because Jonah thought it to be so, and put it up to the Lord as one. It begins in the form of a prayer; and it ends with a petition, though an unlawful one; and has nothing of true and right prayer in it; no celebration of the divine Being, and his perfections; no confession of sin, ore petition for any blessing of providence or grace; but mere wrangling, contending, and quarrelling with God:

and said, I pray thee, O Lord, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? in Judea, or in Galilee, at Gathhepher; was not this what I thought and said within myself, and to thee, that this would be the issue and consequence of going to the Ninevites; they would repent of their sins, and thou wouldst forgive them; and so thou wouldst be reckoned a liar, and I a false prophet? and now things are come to pass just as I thought and said they would: and thus he suggests that he had a greater or better foresight of things than God himself; and that it would have been better if his saying had been attended unto, and not the order of him to Nineveh; how audacious and insolent was this!

therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; before he could have a second order to Nineveh: here he justifies his flight to Tarshish, as if he had good reason for it; and that it would have been better if he had not been stopped in his flight, and had gone to Tarshish, and not have gone to Nineveh. This is amazing, after such severe corrections for his flight, and after such success at Nineveh:

for I know that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger,

and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil; this he knew from his own experience, for which he had reason to be thankful, and from the proclamation of God, in Exodus 34:6; which be seems to have respect unto; and a glorious one it is, though Jonah seems to twit and upbraid the Lord with his grace and mercy to men, as if it was a weakness and infirmity in him, whereas it is his highest glory,

Exodus 33:18; he seems to speak of him, and represent him, as if he was all mercy, and nothing else; which is a wrong representation of him; for he is righteous as well as merciful; and in the same place where he proclaims himself to be so, he declares that he will "by no means clear the guilty", Exodus 34:7: but here we see that good men, and prophets, and ministers of the word, are men of like passions with others, and some of greater passions; and here we have an instance of the prevailing corruptions of good men, and how they break out again, even after they have been scourged for them; for afflictions, though they are corrections for sin, and do restrain it, and humble for it, and both purge and prevent it, yet do not wholly remove it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he prayed unto the Lord - Jonah, at least, did not murmur or complain of God. He complained to God of Himself. He expostulates with Him. Shortsighted indeed and too wedded to his own will! Yet his will was the well-being of the people whose prophet God had made him. He tells God, that this it was, which he had all along dreaded. He softens it, as well as he can, by his word, “I pray Thee,” which expresses deprecation anti-submissiveness. Still he does not hesitate to tell God that this was the cause of his first rebellion! Perilous to the soul, to speak without penitence of former sin; yet it is to God that he speaks and so God, in His wonderful condescension, makes him teach himself.

I knew that Thou art a gracious God - He repeats to God to the letter His own words by Joel Joel 2:13. God had so revealed Himself anew to Judah. He had, doubtless, on some repentance which Judah had shown, turned away the evil from them. And now by sending him as a preacher of repentance, He implied that He would do the same to the enemies of his country. God confirms this by the whole sequel. Thenceforth then Israel knew, that to the pagan also God was intensely, infinitely full of gracious and yearning love nay (as the form rather implies. ) mastered (so to speak) by the might and intensity of His gracious love, “slow to anger” and delaying it, “great in loving tenderness,” and abounding in it; and that toward them also, when the evil is about to be inflicted, or has been partially or wholly inflicted, He will repent of it and replace it with good, on the first turning of the soul or the nation to God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jonah 4:2. I know that thou art a gracious God — Exodus 34:6.