Jonah 4:1-9 ▼

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

2 He prayed to the LORD, and said, |Please, LORD, 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, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.|

4 The LORD 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 The LORD 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 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and 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.|