Jubilee2000 - Jonah - 4

4:1  But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

4:2  And he prayed unto the LORD and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] this not what I said when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy, and dost repent when thou art come to take punishment.

4:3  Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for I would rather die than live.

4:4  Then the LORD said, Art thou so angry?

4:5  And Jonah went out of the city and sat towards the east side of the city, and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shade until he might see what would become of the city.

4:6  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 evil. So Jonah was exceeding glad for the gourd.

4:7  But God [also] prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd [so] that it withered.

4:8  And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to die and said, [It] is better for me to die than to live.

4:9  And God said to Jonah, Art thou so angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death.

4:10  Then the LORD said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd for which thou hast not laboured, neither didst [thou] make it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night:

4:11  And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and many animals?: