1. But it greatly displeased Yonah, and he was grieved.
2. And he prayed to יהוה, and he said, “Please, יהוה, was this not what I said while I was in my own land? This is why I went ahead and fled to Tarshish. For I know that You are an Ěl showing favour, and compassionate, patient and of great kindness, and relenting from doing evil.
3. “And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”
4. And יהוה said, “Are you right to be displeased?”
5. Then Yonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and made himself a shelter there, and sat under it in the shade, to see what would become of the city.