Jonah Chapter 4    

¹But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
  ²He prayed to Yahweh and said, “Please, Yahweh, was not this what I said when I was still in my own country? That is why 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 from doing harm.
  ³So now, Yahweh, please take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
 

⁴But Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
 

⁵Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and made himself a booth there and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
  ⁶And Yahweh 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.
  ⁷But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the vine, so that it withered.
 

⁸And it came to pass when the sun arose, that God prepared a scorching east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head so that he was faint. And he asked for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
 

⁹And 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.”
 

¹⁰Then Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you did not labor, nor made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
  ¹¹And I, shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than 120,000 persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much livestock?”