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Jonah 4:5
Jonah 4:5
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with God and man is as the letting forth of waters, the breach grows
wider and wider, and, when passion gets head, bad is made worse; it…Jonah 4:5Jonah 4:5 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleSo Jonah went out of the city,.... Had not the inhabitants of it repented, he had done right to go out of it, and shake the dust of his feet against it; or, in such a case, had he gone out of it, as Lot out of Sodom,…