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[1]But it was a great evil in Jonah's eyes, and he trembled and became furious.
[2]And he prayed to Jehovah, and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my word while I was still in my own country? On account of this, I fled to Tarshish before, for I knew that You are a gracious Mighty God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who is moved to pity regarding inflicting evil.
[3]And now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me. For it is better for me to die than to live.
[4]And Jehovah said, Is it right for you to be angry?
[5]And Jonah went out from the city and sat to the east of the city. And there he made a booth for himself and sat under it in the shade until he should see what would become of the city.
[6]And Jehovah God appointed a plant, and it came up over Jonah to be shade over his head, in order to deliver him from his misery. And Jonah rejoiced over the plant with great joy.
[7]But God appointed a worm early as the next day dawned, and it struck the plant, and it withered.
[8]And it happened when the sun rose, that God appointed a scorching east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted; and he begged for his soul to die. And he said, It is better for me to die than to live.
[9]And God said to Jonah, Is it right for you to be angry over the plant? And he said, It is right for me to be angry, even to death.
[10]Then Jehovah said, You have had pity on the plant for which you did not labor, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night;
[11]and should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between the right and the left hand, and many cattle?
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