World English Bible
Jonah 4:11
“Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
Jonah 4:11 in the King James Version
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?Read Jonah 4:11 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Jonah 4
God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death.
Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?
Cross references for Jonah 4:11
- Matthew 18:33
Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?
- Luke 15:28-32
But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him. But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that ...
- Psalms 145:8-9
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
- Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
- Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.
- Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
- Psalms 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
- Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
- Psalms 104:27-28
These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
- Jonah 3:2-3
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you." So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.
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