Jonah 4

1 Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

2 So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

4 But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”

5 Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

6 So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.

7 When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

9 Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”

10 But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

11 So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

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?

1 This grieved Jonah almost exceedingly, and he was wroth.

2 And he prayed unto the LORD, saying, O LORD, this is the thing that I said, while I was yet in my own country: therefore would I have preferred to flee to the sea: for I know that thou art gracious, and merciful, and longsuffering, and of great kindness, and hast repented of evil.

3 Take now therefore, O LORD, my soul from me: for I would rather be dead than live.

4 And the LORD said, Thinkest thou that thou art justly wroth?

5 And Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and made himself a tent there; and there he sat down in the shadow, until he should see what should befall the city.

6 And God the LORD provided a gourd, which grew upon Jonah, to give shadow upon his head, and to deliver him out of his evil. And Jonah rejoiced greatly over the gourd.

7 But the LORD provided a worm in the morning, when the dawn was breaking; and it stung the gourd, and it withered.

8 And it came to pass, when the sun was risen, that God brought a scorching east wind, and the sun stung Jonah upon his head, and he was faint. Then he wished his soul dead, saying, "I would rather be dead than live!

9 And God said unto Jonah, Thinkest thou that thou art justly wroth because of the gourd? And he said, I am justly wroth even unto death.

10 And the LORD said, Thou art sorry for the gourd, because thou hast not wrought for it, neither hast thou reared it, which was born in one night, and perished in one night,

11 And I should not lament in Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than an hundred and twenty thousand men, which know not the difference between right and left, and many beasts also?