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NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Et afflictus est Ionas afflictione magna et iratus est;	1 And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was angry:
2 etoravit ad Dominum et dixit: “ Obsecro, Domine, numquid non hoc est verbummeum, cum adhuc essem in terra mea? Propter hoc praeoccupavi ut fugerem inTharsis. Sciebam enim quia tu Deus clemens et misericors es, longanimis etmultae miserationis et ignoscens super malitia.	2 And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.
3 Et nunc, Domine, tolle,quaeso, animam meam a me, quia melior est mihi mors quam vita”.	3 And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 Et dixitDominus: “ Putasne bene irasceris tu? ”.	4 And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?
5 Et egressus est Ionas de civitate et sedit contra orientem civitatis et fecitsibimet umbraculum ibi et sedebat subter illud in umbra, donec videret quidaccideret in civitate.	5 Then Jonas went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of the city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall the city.
6 Et praeparavit Dominus Deus hederam, et ascendit superIonam, ut esset umbra super caput eius et protegeret eum ab afflictione sua. Etlaetatus est Ionas super hedera laetitia magna.	6 And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonas was exceeding glad of the ivy.
7 Et paravit Deus vermem, cum surgeret aurora in crastinum, et percussithederam, quae exaruit.	7 But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.
8 Et, cum ortus fuisset sol, praecepit Deus ventoorientali calido; et percussit sol super caput Ionae, et elanguit; et petivitanimae suae, ut moreretur, et dixit: “ Melius est mihi mori quam vivere ”	8 And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.
9 Et dixit Deus ad Ionam: “ Putasne bene irasceris tu super hedera? ”. Etdixit: “ Bene irascor ego usque ad mortem ”.	9 And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.
10 Et dixit Dominus: “ Tudoles super hederam, in qua non laborasti neque fecisti, ut cresceret, quae subuna nocte nata est et sub una nocte periit.	10 And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.
11 Et ego non parcam Nineve civitatimagnae, in qua sunt plus quam centum viginti milia hominum, qui nesciunt quidsit inter dexteram et sinistram suam, et iumenta multa? ”.	11 And shall not I spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?