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          DASV: Jonah 4

1 But Jonah was terribly displeased and he became angry.
2 He prayed to the LORD, and said, "O LORD, is not this exactly
what I said would happen, when I was still in my country?
That is why I fled to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a
gracious God, merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loyal
love, and one who relents concerning disaster.
3 Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it
is better for me to die than to live."
4 Then the LORD asked, "Are you right to be angry?"

5 Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of
it. There he made a shelter for himself, and sat under it in
the shade to see what would become of the city.
6 Now the LORD God prepared a plant, and made it to come up over
Jonah, to give shade for his head and to deliver him from his
misery. So Jonah was very happy about the plant.
7 But God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the
plant so that it withered.
8 When the sun rose, God sent a scorching east wind, and the sun
beat on Jonah's head until he grew faint and requested that he
might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
9 Then God said to Jonah, "Are you right to be angry concerning
the plant?" He replied, "Yes, angry enough to die."
10 Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant, for
which you have not worked or made it grow. It came up in a night
and perished in a night.
11 Should I not have had compassion on Nineveh, that great city,
where there are more than 120,000 people who cannot tell the
difference between their right hand and their left, along with
many animals?"
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