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| [1]BUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was greatly grieved. |
[1]Therefore it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. |
| [2]And he prayed to the LORD and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient and of great kindness, and thou art ready to turn away calamity. |
[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 prevented it to flee 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 my LORD, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. |
[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 the LORD said to him, Are you very sorrowful |
[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 a booth for himself, and sat under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city. |
[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 should be done in the city. |
| [6]And the LORD God commanded a tender shoot of gourd to spring up, and it sprang up and came over Jonah, and became a shade over his head, and comforted him of his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the gourd. |
[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 and deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd . |
| [7]But the next day at dawn, God commanded a worm, and it smote the gourd so that it withered. |
[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 arose, the LORD God commanded a sultry east wind; and it withered the gourd, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he was weary and wished that he might die, and said, O LORD, you can take my life from me, for I am not better than my fathers. |
[8]And when the sun did arise, God prepared also a fervent east wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to die, than to live. |
| [9]And the LORD God said to Jonah, Are you exceedingly grieved over the gourd? And Jonah said, I am exceedingly grieved, even unto death. |
[9]And God said unto Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry unto the death. |
| [10]Then the LORD said to him, You have had pity on the gourd for the which you did not labor nor did you make it to grow; which sprung up in a night and withered in a night; |
[10]Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night, |
| [11]And should not I have pity upon Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand,: and also much cattle? |
[11]And should not I spare Nineveh that great city, wherein are sixscore thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand, and their left hand, and also much cattle? |