Jonah 4

¹But it displeased Jonah exceedingly , and he was angry .

²And he prayed to the Lord and said , O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country ? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish ; for I knew that you gracious God and merciful , slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love , and relenting from disaster .

³Therefore now , O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live .

⁴And the Lord said , Do you do well to be angry ?

⁵Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there . He sat under it in the shade , till he should see what would become of the city .

⁶Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah , that it might be a shade over his head , to save him from his discomfort . So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant .

⁷But when dawn came up the next day , God appointed a worm that attacked the plant , so that it withered .

⁸When the sun rose , God appointed a scorching east wind , and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint . And he asked that he might die and said , It is better for me to die than to live .

⁹But God said to Jonah , Do you do well to be angry for the plant ? And he said , Yes, I do well to be angry , angry enough to die .

¹⁰And the Lord said , You pity the plant , for which you did not labor , nor did you make it grow , which came into being in a night and perished in a night .

¹¹And should not I pity Nineveh , that great city , in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left , and also much cattle ?