Jonah 4

1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.Cross-references: Jonah 4:4 · Jonah 4:9 · Matt 20:15 · Luke 7:39 · Luke 15:28 · Acts 13:46 · +1 more

2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.Cross-references: Ex 32:14 · Ex 34:6 · Num 14:18 · 1Ki 19:4 · Ps 78:38 · Ps 86:5 · +13 more

3Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”Cross-references: Num 11:15 · Num 20:3 · 1Ki 19:4 · Job 3:20 · Job 6:8 · Job 7:15 · +5 more

4Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”Cross-references: Num 20:11 · Num 20:24 · Ps 106:32 · Jonah 4:9 · Mic 6:3 · Matt 20:15 · +1 more

5Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.Cross-references: Gen 19:27 · 1Ki 19:9 · 1Ki 19:13 · Isa 57:17 · Jer 17:15 · Jer 20:9 · +2 more

6Yahweh God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.Cross-references: Esth 5:9 · Ps 103:10 · Prov 23:5 · Isa 39:2 · Amos 6:13 · Jonah 1:17 · +2 more

7But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.Cross-references: Job 1:21 · Ps 30:6 · Ps 90:5 · Ps 102:10 · Isa 40:6 · Joel 1:12

8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · 1Sam 3:18 · 2Sam 15:25 · Job 2:10 · Ps 39:9 · Ps 121:6 · +9 more

9God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”Cross-references: Gen 4:5 · Judg 16:16 · Job 5:2 · Job 18:4 · Job 40:4 · Matt 26:38 · +2 more

10Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night.Cross-references: Gen 17:12 · 1Sam 20:31

11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”Cross-references: Deut 1:39 · Ps 36:6 · Ps 104:14 · Ps 104:27 · Ps 145:8 · Ps 145:15 · +6 more