Jonah 4
1 Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry. 2 So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “ O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion — One who relents from sending disaster. 3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” 4 But the LORD replied, “ Have you any right to be angry?” 5 Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city. 6 So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah ’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant. 7 When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered. 8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah ’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “ It is better for me to die than to live.” 9 Then God asked Jonah, “ Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “ I do,” he replied. “ I am angry enough to die!” 10 But the LORD said, “ You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night. 11 So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”