4–BOB
Yunusning gʻazabi va Xudoning shafqati
1 Bu voqeadan Yunus qattiq xafa boʻlib gʻazablandi. 2 U Egamizga ibodat qilib dedi: “Ey Egam! Shunaqa qilishingni oʻz yurtimda ekanimdayoq aytmaganmidim?! Shuning uchun men Tarshishga qochgan edim–da. Sen inoyatli, rahmdil, jahli tez chiqmaydigan, sodiq sevgisi moʻl, gʻazabidan tushib kechiradigan Xudo ekanligingni bilgan edim. 3 Endi, iltijo qilaman, Egam, jonimni olib qoʻya qol. Yashaganimdan koʻra, oʻlganim yaxshiroq.”
4 Egamiz esa: “Nahotki shundan sen xafa boʻlding?!” dedi.
5 Yunus shahardan chiqib, shaharning sharq tomoniga borib oʻtirdi. Shu yerda chayla yasab, endi shaharga nima boʻlarkin, deb chaylaning soyasida kutib oʻtirdi.
6 Bir payt, Yunusning boshiga soya boʻlsin, qaygʻusi barham topsin deb, Parvardigor Egamiz bir oʻsimlik oʻstirdi. Oʻsimlik Yunusning tepasida koʻtarildi. Yunus bu oʻsimlik oʻsganidan juda xursand boʻldi. 7 Keyingi kuni esa tong paytida Xudo bir qurtni yuborgan edi, qurt oʻsimlikni kemirib quritdi. 8 Quyosh yuqoriga koʻtarilganda, Xudo sharqdan garmsel yubordi. Quyosh Yunusning boshini shunday qizdirdiki, u holdan keta boshladi. Yunus: “Bunaqa yashaganimdan, oʻlganim yaxshiroq”, deb oʻziga oʻlim tiladi .
9 Xudo Yunusga:
— Bitta oʻsimlik nobud boʻlganidan jahling chiqdimi? — dedi.
— Ha, jahlim chiqdi, oʻlimimga ham rozi boʻldim, — deb javob berdi Yunus.
10 Shunda Egamiz aytdi:
— Bu oʻsimlik uchun sen mehnat qilmagansan, ekib–oʻstirmagansan, oʻzi bir kechada oʻsib, bir kechada yoʻq boʻldi. Sen shu oʻsimlik uchun achinganingda, 11 Men qudratli Naynavo shahriga achinmasligim kerakmi?! Axir, bu yerda oq–qorani ajrata olmaydigan bolalarning oʻzidan yuz yigirma mingdan ortigʻi va talay hayvonlar yashaydi–ku!
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O 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. 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 ¶ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. 6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
