¹But this was deeply displeasing to Jonah, and he burned with anger.

²He prayed to Yahweh and said, "Please, Yahweh, is this not my word, back when I was on my own ground? That is why I went ahead to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a God who is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, great in loyal love, and who relents over disaster."

³"So now, Yahweh, take my life from me, please, for my death is better than my life."

⁴Yahweh said, "Is it right that you burn with anger?"

⁵Jonah went out of the city and sat down east of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city.

⁶Then Yahweh God appointed a plant, and it came up over Jonah, to be shade over his head, to deliver him from his misery. And Jonah rejoiced over the plant with great joy.

⁷But God appointed a worm when dawn came up the next day, and it struck the plant, and it withered.

⁸And when the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck Jonah's head, so that he grew faint. He asked for his life to end, and said, "My death is better than my life."

⁹God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to burn with anger over the plant?" He said, "It is right for me to burn with anger, to the point of death."

¹⁰Yahweh said, "You had compassion on the plant, which you did not toil over and did not make grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night."

¹¹"And should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are many more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who do not distinguish between their right hand and their left, and much livestock?"