Jonah 4:11 {10}
Good News Translation
How much more, then, should I have pity on Nineveh, that great city. After all, it has more than 120,000 innocent children in it, as well as many animals!"

New Revised Standard Version
And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”

Contemporary English Version
In that city of Nineveh there are more than 120,000 people who cannot tell right from wrong, and many cattle are also there. Don't you think I should be concerned about that big city?

New American Bible
And should I not be concerned over the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot know their right hand from their left, not to mention all the animals?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

should.

Jonah 4:1 And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Matthew 18:33 Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee?

Luke 15:28-32 And he was angry and would not go in. His father therefore coming out began to entreat him. . . .

Nineveh.

Jonah 1:2 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:

Jonah 3:2,3 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time saying: . . .

sixscore.

600,000; which is very inferior to that of London and Paris, though they occupy not one quarter of the ground. In eastern cities there are large vacant spaces for gardens and pasturages, so that there might be very much cattle.

that cannot.

Deuteronomy 1:39 Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.

and also.

Psalm 36:6 Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

Psalm 104:14,27,28 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: . . .

Psalm 145:8,9,15,16 The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy. . . .

Context
Jonah's Anger at the LORD's Compassion
10And the Lord said to Jonah: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death. 11And 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.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:39
Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.

Psalm 36:6
Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

Isaiah 7:16
For before the child know to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her two kings.

Isaiah 37:37
And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.

Jonah 3:3
Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

Jonah 3:10
Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?

Jonah 4:10
And the Lord said to Jonah: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.

Jonah 4:10
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