Jonah Chapter Four

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?

    Jonah Chapter Four - KJV