Jonah 4

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1. 1This made Jonah furious. He was deeply upset about it.
2. 2He prayed to the LORD and said, "I beg you, O LORD, isn't this what I said when I was still in my country? That's why I fled to Tarshish, because I knew you are a gracious God, merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and you repent of the evil."
3. 3So now, LORD, just take my life. I'd rather die than go on living."
4. 4The LORD asked, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
5. 5Jonah left the city and sat down on its east side. He built himself a small shelter and sat in its shade, waiting to see what would happen to Nineveh.
6. 6Then the LORD God made a vine grow up over Jonah to shade his head and deliver him from his grief. Jonah was thrilled about the vine.
7. 7But at dawn the next day, God sent a worm that attacked the vine, and it shriveled up.
8. 8When the sun came up, God sent a scorching east wind. The sun blazed down on Jonah's head until he grew faint. He wished he were dead and said, "I'd rather die than go on living."
9. 9And God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry about the gourd?" And he replied, "I do well to be angry, even to death."
10. 10Then the LORD said, "You have had pity on the vine, which you did not plant or make grow. It came up in a night and perished in a night."
11. 11And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, where there are more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and also many cattle?