Jonah 4:1–8

1  And it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2  And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious •God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3  And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live. 4  And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?

5  And 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 shade, till he might see what would become of the city. 6  And Jehovah Elohim prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his trouble. And Jonah was exceeding glad because 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 arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.