| 4:1 | This displeased Jonah terribly* and he became very angry.* |
| 4:2 | He prayed to the Lord and said, “Oh, Lord, this is just what I thought* would happen* when I was in my own country.* This is what I tried to prevent* by attempting to escape to Tarshish!* – because I knew* that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger* and abounding* in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.* |
| 4:3 | So now, Lord, kill me instead,* because I would rather die than live!”* |
| 4:4 | The Lord said, “Are you really so very* angry?”* |
| 4:5 | Jonah left the city and sat down east* of it.* He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.* |
| 4:6 | The Lord God appointed* a little plant* and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue* him from his misery.* Now Jonah was very delighted* about the little plant. |
| 4:7 | So God sent* a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up. |
| 4:8 | When the sun began to shine, God sent* a hot* east wind. So the sun beat down* on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life,* and said, “I would rather die than live!”* |
| 4:9 | God said to Jonah, “Are you really so very angry* about the little plant?” And he said, “I am as angry* as I could possibly be!”* |
| 4:10 | The Lord said, “You were upset* about this little* plant, something for which you have not worked nor did you do anything to make it grow. It grew up overnight and died the next day.* |
| 4:11 | Should I* not be even more* concerned* about Nineveh, this enormous city?* There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong,* as well as many animals!”* |
Jonah 4 - NET Bible [draft]
