Jonah 4

Revised Geneva Translation

4 Therefore it displeased Jonah exceedingly; and he was angry.

² And he prayed to the LORD, and said, “Ah now, O LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore, I fled to Tarshish before. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. And You turn from evil.

³ “Therefore, O LORD, I beg You, take my life from me now. For it is better for me to die than to live.”

⁴ “Then the LORD said, “Do you do well to be angry?

⁵ So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. And he made a booth there and sat under it, in the shadow, until he might see what would be done in the city.

⁶ And the LORD God prepared a plant, and made it to come up over Jonah, so that it might be a shade over his head and deliver him from his grief. So, Jonah was exceedingly glad for the plant.

⁷ But when the morning rose the next day, God prepared a worm. And it struck the plant, so that it withered.

⁸ And when the Sun arose, God also prepared a fervent east wind. And the Sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted and wished in his heart to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

⁹ And God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry unto death!”

¹⁰ Then the LORD said, “You have had pity on a plant which you have neither tended nor made grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.

¹¹ And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are 120,000 people, and many cattle, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand?