Jonah 4

But this greatly displeased Jonah, and he became angry. He prayed to the LORD, “Please, LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own land? That is why I was quick to flee to Tarshish. For I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, who relents from disaster. And now, LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” The LORD said, “Are you right to be angry?” Jonah went out of the city and sat down east of it. He made himself a shelter there and sat under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city. The LORD God appointed a plant, and it grew up over Jonah to give shade over his head and relieve his distress. Jonah was greatly delighted with the plant. But at dawn the next day God appointed a worm, and it attacked the plant, so that it withered. When the sun rose, God appointed a stifling east wind. The sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. He asked to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.” God said to Jonah, “Are you right to be angry over the plant?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to the point of death.” The LORD said, “You had pity on the plant, for which you did not labor and which you did not make grow. It came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 people who do not know their right hand from their left, and many animals?”

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