Yonah, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} But it displeased Yonah exceedingly, and he was angry. {4:2}
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 repent of the
evil. {4:3} Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for
it is better for me to die than to live."
{4:4} The LORD said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
{4:5} Then Yonah 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. {4:6} The
LORD God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Yonah, that it
might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So
Yonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine. {4:7} But God prepared
a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it
withered. {4:8} It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a
sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Yonah'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."
{4:9} God said to Yonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the
vine?"
He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death."
{4:10} The LORD said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for
which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a
night, and perished in a night. {4:11} Shouldn't I be concerned for
Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty
thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their
left hand; and also much cattle?"
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