2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent you of the evil. Compare verse5 commentaries
3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. Compare verse1 commentary
5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. Compare verse3 commentaries
6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. Compare verse7 commentaries
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. Compare verse7 commentaries
8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on 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. Compare verse6 commentaries
9 And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death. Compare verse5 commentaries
10 Then said the LORD, You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: Compare verse6 commentaries
11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Compare verse10 commentaries