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Jonah's Anger

¹ But this was a great evil to Jonah, and he became ^(C1)angry.² And he ^(C1)prayed to Yahweh and said, "Ah! O Yahweh, was not this my word to myself while I was still in my own land? Therefore I went ahead to ^(C2)flee to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a ^(C3)gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning evil.³ "So now, O Yahweh, please ^(C1)take my ^(F1)life from me, for death is ^(C2)better to me than life."⁴ And Yahweh said, "Do you have good reason to be angry?"

⁵ Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of the city. And there he made a booth for himself and ^(C1)sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city.⁶ So Yahweh God appointed a ^(F1)plant, and it came up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his miserable evil. And Jonah was ^(F2)extremely glad about the plant.⁷ But God appointed a worm at the ^(F1)breaking of dawn the next day, and it struck the plant, and ^(F2)it ^(C1)dried up.⁸ Then it happened that as the sun rose up, God appointed a scorching ^(C1)east wind, and the ^(C2)sun struck down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and asked with all his soul to die and said, "^(C3)Death 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 Yahweh said, "You had pity on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which ^(F1)came to be overnight and perished ^(F2)overnight.¹¹ "So should I not ^(C1)have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not ^(C2)know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many ^(F1)(C3)animals?"