> [!title|noicon] **Jonah 4**
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1 BUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. ^1
2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, _was_ not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou _art_ a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. ^2
3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for _it_ _is_ better for me to die than to live. ^3
4 ¶ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? ^4
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. ^5
6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made _it_ to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. ^6
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. ^7
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, _It_ _is_ better for me to die than to live. ^8
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, _even_ unto death. ^9
10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: ^10
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and _also_ much cattle? ^11