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4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 4:2 And he prayed to the LORD and said, 'I pray thee, LORD, is not thiswhat I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish;for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil. 4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live.' 4:4 And the LORD said, 'Do you do well to be angry?' 4:5 Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. 4:6 And the LORD God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. 4:7 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered. 4:8 When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint;and he asked that he might die, and said, 'It is better for me to die than to live.' 4:9 But God said to Jonah, 'Do you do well to be angry for the plant?' And he said, 'I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.' 4:10 And the LORD said, 'You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night. 4:11 And should not I pity Nin'eveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?'