Jonah 4

1 but it displeased jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry 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 fled before 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 lord, take, i beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live 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 him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city 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 grief so jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd 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 did arise, that god prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, it is better for me to die than to live 9 and god said to jonah, doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? and he said, i do well to be angry, even unto death 10 then said the lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night 11 and should not i spare nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?