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And this[note: Hebrew "it"] {was greatly displeasing}[note: Literally "was displeasing [with] great displeasure"] to Jonah, and {he became furious}.[note: Literally "it was hot for him"]
And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, [was] this not {what I said}[note: Literally "my word"] while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled}[note: Literally "I did the first time to flee"] to Tarshish, because I knew that you [are] a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love},[note: Literally "and great of steadfast love"] and one who relents concerning calamity.[note: That is, calamity sent by God as judgment]