April 15, 2024 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS
Jonah 3:10-4:11
10 When
God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the
disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Jonah's Anger and the Lord's Compassion
4 But it
displeased Jonah exceedingly,[a] and he was angry. 2 And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I
was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew
that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in
steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. 3 Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than
to live.” 4 And
the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?”
5 Jonah went out of
the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He
sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.
6 Now the Lord God appointed a plant[b] and made it come up over Jonah, that it
might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort.[c] So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of
the plant. 7 But
when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant,
so that it withered. 8 When
the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the
head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said,
“It is better for me to die than to live.” 9 But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry
for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”
10 And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you
make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.
11 And should not I pity
Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do
not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
Footnotes
- Jonah 4:1 Hebrew it
was exceedingly evil to Jonah
- Jonah 4:6 Hebrew qiqayon,
probably the castor oil plant; also verses 7, 9, 10
- Jonah 4:6 Or his
evil
Psalm 65:1-8
O
God of Our Salvation
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.
65 Praise is
due to you,[a] O God, in Zion,
and
to you shall vows be performed.
2 O you who hear prayer,
to
you shall all flesh come.
3 When iniquities
prevail against me,
you
atone for our transgressions.
4 Blessed is the one you
choose and bring near,
to
dwell in your courts!
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
the
holiness of your temple!
5 By
awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,
O
God of our salvation,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and
of the farthest seas;
6 the one who by his
strength established the mountains,
being
girded with might;
7 who stills the roaring
of the seas,
the
roaring of their waves,
the
tumult of the peoples,
8 so that those who
dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.
You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout
for joy.
Footnotes
- Psalm 65:1 Or Praise
waits for you in silence
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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