1 But it
displeased Jonah exceedingly gadowl#
, 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 gadowl#
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 ben#
, and
perished in a
night ben#
:
11 And should not I
spare Nineveh, that
great city, wherein
are more than
sixscore sh@nayim#
thousand persons that cannot
discern between their right
hand and their left
hand; and also
much cattle?