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¹ But it was a great calamity in Jonah's sight, and it kindled anger in him.² And he prayed to Jehovah, and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my word while I was on my own land? On account of this, I fled to Tarshish before, for I knew that You are a graciousGod and merciful, slow to anger, and ofgreat kindness, and One who repents over calamity.³ And now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.⁴ And Jehovah said, Is anger rightly kindled in you?

⁵ And Jonah went out from the city and sat on the east of the city. And he made there a booth for himself and sat under it in the shade until he should see what would happen in the city.⁶ And Jehovah God appointed a plant, and it came up over Jonah to be shade over his head, in order to deliver him from his misery. And Jonah rejoiced over the plant with great joy.⁷ But God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn of the next day, and it struck the plant, and it withered.⁸ And it happened when the sun shone, God had appointed a scorching east wind; and the sun struck Jonah's head, so that he fainted; and he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life.⁹ And God said to Jonah, Is your anger rightly kindled over the plant? And he said, My anger is rightly kindled, even to death.¹⁰ And Jehovah said, You have had pity on the plant for which you had not labored, nor made it grow, which was the son of a night and perished the son of a night,¹¹ and should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand of mankind who do not know between the right and the left hand , and many cattle?