(1) Jonah was exceedingly disturbed and became angry. (2) So Jonah prayed to Yahweh, “Please, Yahweh; was this not what I said when I was in my own land? Thus, I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness, relenting from calamity. (3) And now, Yahweh, I pray you take my soul from me for it is better for me to die than to live. (4) Then Yahweh said, “Is it good for you to burn with anger?” (5) So Jonah left the city and sat down to the East of it. He made a shelter there and sat under its shadow, watching to see what would happen in the city. (6) So Yahweh God caused a plant to grow over Jonah so that a shadow was cast over his head, to relieve him from discomfort. Jonah was very happy about the plant. (7) God sent a worm at daybreak the next day. It attacked the plant so that it withered. (8) So when the sun arose, God sent a scorching East wind and the sun beat down upon Jonah. He grew faint and asked that he might die, saying “Death is better to me than living.” (9) So God said to Jonah, “Does it please you to sit there and to be angry at the plant?” Jonah replied, “It pleases me to be angry, even to death." (10) So Yahweh said, “You had pity on the plant which you did not cultivate and did nothing to cause it to grow. It grew one night and died the next. (11) Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city, which has in her more than 120,000 clueless people and scores of animals?!”