Jonah 4:2,3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

Is this Jonah, who offered such a lovely prayer but a little before? Can it be, the same man? Alas! Reader! what is Jonah, what is any man, if for a moment left without the influences of grace?

Jonah 4:2-3

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.