^[1]  But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

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^[2]  And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent you of the evil.

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^[3]  Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. ¶

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^[4]  Then said the LORD, Do you well to be angry?

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^[5]  So 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 shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

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^[6]  And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

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^[7]  But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

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^[8]  And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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^[9]  And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.

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^[10]  Then said the LORD, You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

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^[11]  And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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