The Prophet Jonah (15): Jonah Stews in His Booth (Jonah 4:5-8) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The Booth
II. The Gourd
III. The Worm
IV. The Wind
Albert Barnes on Jonah 4: "This ever befalls those who wish 'that' to take place, not what is best and most pleasing to God, but what they think most useful to themselves. Whence we see our very great and common error, who think our peace and tranquillity to lie in the fulfilment of our own will, whereas this will and judgment of our own is the cause of all our trouble. So then Jonah prays and tacitly blames God, and would not so much excuse as approve that, his former flight, to 'Him whose eyes are too pure to behold iniquity' ... For it cannot but be that 'his' life, who measures everything by his own will and mind, and who followeth not God as his Guide but rather willeth to be the guide of the Divine Will, should be from time to time troubled with great sorrow. But since 'the merciful and gracious Lord' hath pity on our infirmity and gently admonisheth us within, when He sees us at variance with Him, He forsakes not Jonah in that hot grief, but lovingly blames him."