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I am angry I wish I were dead// Eu estou com raiva, eu desejo morrer

  Sometimes we get disappointed in God, right? Just because He doesn’t do what we expected. Or like Jonah from the Bible. Jonah knew that God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and relenting from disaster (Jonah 4:2). So, having that in mind, he knew that if he obeyed God going to Nineveh to prophecy their doom, and if the people repented afraid of the destruction, God wouldn’t destroy them. It made Jonah very angry. In Jonah's sense of Justice, those people deserved to be destroyed because they were violent people. So Jonah did disobeyed God and run away from God’s word and ended up inside a fish’s belly. He repented and God gave him a second chance to make things right. He went to Nineveh and prophesied against the people, the people repented and God withheld the destruction. So Jonah was so angry that he wanted to die. He was very disappointed in God. But God showed him how unfair Jonah’s thoughts were. God made a t