Book Order Bible

¹BUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was greatly grieved. ²And he prayed to Yahvah and said, I ask, Oh Yahvah, was this not what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, patient and of great kindness, and you are ready to turn away calamity. ³Therefore now, Oh Yahvah, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. ⁴Then Yahvah said to him, Are you very sorrowful?

⁵So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made a booth for himself, and sat under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city. ⁶And Yahvah God commanded a tender shoot of gourd to spring up, and it sprang up and came over Jonah, and became shade over his head, and comforted him in his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the gourd. ⁷But the next day at dawn, God commanded a worm, and it struck the gourd so that it withered. ⁸And it came to pass when the sun arose, Yahvah God commanded a sultry east wind; and it withered the gourd, and the sun beat on the head of Jonah, that he was weary and wished that he might die, and said, Oh Yahvah, you can take my life from me, for I am not better than my fathers. ⁹And Yahvah God said to Jonah, Are you exceedingly grieved over the gourd? And Jonah said, I am exceedingly grieved, even to death. ¹⁰Then Yahvah said to him, You have had pity on the gourd for the which you did not labor nor did you make it grow; which sprung up in a night and withered in a night; ¹¹And should I not have pity on Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than 120,000 persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many cattle?