4 But
it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2 And
he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my
saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish:
for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger,
and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3 Therefore
now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for
me to die than to live. 4 Then
said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? 5 So
Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and
there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might
see what would become of the city.
6
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that
it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah
was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But
God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the
gourd that it withered. 8 And
it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east
wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished
in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And
God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said,
I do well to be angry, even unto death. 10 Then
said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast
not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished
in a night: 11 And
should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore
thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their
left hand; and also much cattle?