Jonah 4:1-4 ▼

1 And it is grievous to Jonah—a great evil—and he is displeased at it;

2 and he prays to YHWH, and he says, “Ah, now, O YHWH, is this not my word while I was in my own land—therefore I was beforehand [going] to flee to Tarshish—that I have known that You [are] a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and relenting of evil?

3 And now, O YHWH, please take my soul from me, for better [is] my death than my life.”

4 And YHWH says, “Is doing good displeasing to you?”