4:1   But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.

4:2  He prayed to the LORD and said, "Please LORD, did I not say this while I still lived in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew You as a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

4:3   "Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for I would rather die than live."

4:4   The LORD said, "Do you have good reason to show anger?"

4:5   Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city.

4:6   So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to serve as a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah felt extremely happy about the plant.

4:7   But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.

4:8  When the sun came up , God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, "I would rather die rather than live."

4:9   Then God said to Jonah, "Do you have good reason to rage about the plant?" And he said, "I have good reason to have anger, even to death."

4:10  Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.

4:11  "Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which dwell more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?"