“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?” (Jonah 4:1-11
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