[1] But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. [2] He prayed to
Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn`t this what I said when I was still
in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that
you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in
lovingkindness, and you repent of the evil. [3] Therefore now, Yahweh,
take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to
live." [4] Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?" [5] Then Jonah
went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made
himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what
would become of the city. [6] Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to
come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him
from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the gourd.
[7] But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on vine, so
that it withered. [8] It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a
sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah`s head , so that he fainted,
and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me
to die than to live." [9] God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be
angry about the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to
death." [10] Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which
you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and
perished in a night. [11] Shouldn`t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great
city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can`t
discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle?"
