Chapter 4
1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly , and he was angry .
2 He prayed to Yahweh , and said , " Please , Yahweh , wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish , for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful , slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness , and you relent of doing harm .
3 Therefore now , Yahweh , take , I beg you , my life from me , for it is better for me to die than to live ."
4 Yahweh said, " Is it right for you to be angry ?"
5 Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city , and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade , until he might see what would become of the city .
6 Yahweh God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah , that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
7 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day , and it chewed on the vine so that it withered .
8 When the sun arose , God prepared a sultry east wind ; and the sun beat on Jonah ’s head , so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die . He said, " It is better for me to die than to live ."
9 God said to Jonah , " Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" He said, " I am right to be angry , even to death ."
10 Yahweh said, " You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored , neither made it grow ; which came up in a night and perished in a night .
11 Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh , that great city , in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can ’t discern between their right hand and their left hand , and also many animals?"