Jonah 4:5-11

English Standard Version

⁵ Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and ^(A)made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. ⁶ Now the Lord God appointed a plant^[a] and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort.^[b] So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. ⁷ But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered. ⁸ When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching ^(B)east wind, ^(C)and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he ^(D)was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, ^(E)“It is better for me to die than to live.” ⁹ But God said to Jonah, ^(F)“Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” ¹⁰ And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. ¹¹ And should not I pity ^(G)Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much ^(H)cattle?”