Jonah 4  Jubilee Bible 2000

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 this not what I said when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy, and dost repent when thou art come to take punishment.

³ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for I would rather die than live.

⁴ Then the LORD said, Art thou so angry?

⁵ ¶ And Jonah went out of the city and sat towards the east side of the city, and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shade until 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 evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad for the gourd.

⁷ But God also prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd so that it withered.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁹ And God said to Jonah, Art thou so angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

¹⁰ Then the LORD said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for which thou hast not laboured, neither didst thou make it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night:

¹¹ And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and many animals?