1. But it greatly displeased Jonah and he resented it.
2. So he prayed to Adonai and said, “Please, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my own country? That’s what I anticipated, fleeing to Tarshish—for I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and full of kindness, and relenting over calamity.
3. So please, Adonai, take my soul from me—because better is my death than my life.”
4. Yet Adonai said, “Is it good for you to be so angry?”
5. So Jonah went out from the city and sat east of the city. There He made a sukkah and he sat under it, in the shade, until he saw what would happen in the city.
6. Then Adonai God prepared a plant and it grew up over Jonah, to give shade over his head to spare him from his discomfort. So Jonah was very happy about the plant.
7. But God at dawn the next day prepared a worm that crippled the plant and it withered away.