New American Standard Bible JONAH 4

Jonah’s Displeasure Rebuked

1 But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became Aangry. 2 He Aprayed to the Loʀᴅ and said, “Please Loʀᴅ, was not this 1what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore 2in order to forestall this I Bfled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a Cgracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. 3 “Therefore now, O Loʀᴅ, please Atake my 1life from me, for death is Bbetter to me than life.” 4 The Loʀᴅ said, “Do you have good reason to be angry?”

5 Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of 1it. There he made a shelter for himself and Asat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city. 6 So the Loʀᴅ God appointed a 1plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was 2extremely happy about the 1plant. 7 But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it Awithered. 8 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching Aeast wind, and the Bsun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “CDeath is better to me than life.”

9 Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to death.” 10 Then the Loʀᴅ said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which 1came up overnight and perished 2overnight. 11 “Should I not Ahave compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not Bknow the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many Canimals?”