Jonah 4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹ But it displeased Yonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

² He prayed to the LORD, and said, *Please, LORD, 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 loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

³ Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.*

⁴ The LORD said, *Is it right for you to be angry?*

⁵ Then Yonah 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.

⁶ The LORD God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Yonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Yonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.

⁷ But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

⁸ It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Yonah'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.*

⁹ God said to Yonah, *Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?* He said, *I am right to be angry, even to death.*

¹⁰ The LORD 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.

¹¹ 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 livestock?*