Jonah 4:1-2

Young's Literal Translation

4 And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;

² and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou [art] a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?