KJV 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?
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Jonah 4:11
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?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
WEB World English Bible
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?”
ASV American Standard Version
and should not I have regard for 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?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and I—have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left—and much cattle!’
Surrounding context — Jonah 4
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?
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וַֽאֲנִי֙H589 · a.niIלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotאָח֔וּסH2347 · chusto pityעַל־H5921 · aluponנִינְוֵ֖הH5210 · nin.vehNinevehהָעִ֣ירH5892 · irexcitementהַגְּדוֹלָ֑הH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichיֶשׁ־H3426 · yeshthereבָּ֡הּH9034 · haherהַרְבֵּה֩H7235 · ra.vahto multiplyמִֽשְׁתֵּים־H8147 · she.na.yimtwoעֶשְׂרֵ֨הH6240 · a.sartenרִבּ֜וֹH7239 · rib.boten thousandאָדָ֗םH120 · a.dammanאֲשֶׁ֤רH834 · a.sherwhichלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotיָדַע֙H3045 · ya.dato knowבֵּין־H996 · ba.yinbetweenיְמִינ֣וֹH3225 · ya.minrightלִשְׂמֹאל֔וֹH8040 · se.mo.lleftוּבְהֵמָ֖הH929 · be.he.mahanimalרַבָּֽה׃H7227 · ravmany
Cross-references
Matthew 18:33Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?Luke 15:28-32And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.Psalm 36:6Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.Psalm 145:8-9The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.Jonah 1:2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.Deuteronomy 1:39Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.Isaiah 1:18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.Psalm 104:14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;Jonah 3:2-3Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.Psalm 145:15-16The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.Psalm 104:27-28These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.Jonah 3:10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.
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