1. And it is grievous unto Jonah--a great evil--and he is displeased at it;
2. and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land--therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish--that I have known that Thou [art] a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger,and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?
3. And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better [is] my death than my life.'
4. And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?'
5. And Jonah goeth forth from the city, and sitteth on the east of the city, and maketh to himself there a booth, and sitteth under it in the shade, till that he seeth what is in the city.
6. And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd [with] great joy.
7. And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.