Chapter 4

  But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.  

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  He prayed to Yahweh, and said, 'Please, Yahweh, 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 lovingkindness, and you repent of the evil.  

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  Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.'  

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  Yahweh said, 'Is it right for you to be angry?'  

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  Then Jonah 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.  

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  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 gourd.  

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  But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on vine, so that it withered.  

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  It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah'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.'  

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  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.'  

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  Yahweh 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.  

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  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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