And he prayedunto the LORD, and said, I praythee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fledbeforeuntoTarshish: for I knewthatthou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of greatkindness, and repentestthee of the evil.
So Jonahwent out of the city, and sat on the eastside of the city, and theremade him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see whatwouldbecome of the city.
And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up overJonah, that it might be a shadowover his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceedingglad of the gourd.
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehementeastwind; and the sun beatupon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Thensaid the LORD, Thouhast had pity on the gourd, for the whichthouhast not laboured, neithermadest it grow; whichcame up in a night, and perished in a night:
And should not I spareNineveh, thatgreatcity, wherein are morethansixscorethousandpersonsthatcannotdiscernbetweentheirrighthand and theirlefthand; and alsomuchcattle?