Jonah 4
1. 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?
