Jonah 4 Therefore Jonah was sore discontent and angry.

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Therefore Jonah was sore discontent and angry. ² And he prayed unto the LORD and said, "O LORD, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? And therefore I hasted rather to flee to Tarshish: for I knew well enough that thou wast a merciful god, full of compassion long before thou be angry, and of great mercy and repentest when thou art come to take punishment. ³ Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live." ⁴ And the LORD said unto Jonah, "Art thou so angry?" ⁵ And Jonah gat him out of the city and sat him down on the east side thereof, and made him there a booth and sat thereunder in the shadow, till he might see what should chance unto the city. ⁶ And the LORD prepared as it were a wild vine which sprang up over Jonah, that he might have shadow over his head, to deliver him out of his pain. And Jonah was exceeding glad of the wild vine. ⁷ And the LORD ordained a worm against the spring of the morrow morning which smote the wild vine that it withered away. ⁸ And as soon as the sun was up, God prepared a fervent east wind: so that the sun beat over the head of Jonah, that he fainted again and wished unto his soul that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live." ⁹ And God said unto Jonah, "Art thou so angry for thy wild vine?" And he said, "I am angry a good, even unto the death." ¹⁰ And the LORD said, "Thou hast compassion on a wild vine, whereon thou bestowedest no labour nor madest it grow, which sprang up in one night and perished in another: ¹¹ And should not I have compassion on Nineveh that great city, wherein there is a multitude of people, even above a hundred thousand that know not their righthand from the left, besides much cattle?"