1 And it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2 And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious *God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
3 And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?
5 And 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 shade, till he might see what would become of the city.
6 And Jehovah Elohim prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his trouble. And Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, unto death.
10 And Jehovah said, Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11 and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
1 约拿对这事非常不高兴， 并且发起怒来，
2 就向耶和华祷告， 说： "耶和华啊！ 我还在本国的时候， 不是这样说过吗？我知道你是有恩典有怜悯的 神， 不轻易发怒， 并且有丰盛的慈爱， 转意不降灾祸， 所以我才急忙逃往他施去。
3 耶和华啊！ 现在求你取去我的性命吧， 因为我死了比活着还好。"
4 耶和华回答说： "你这样发怒对不对呢？"
5 约拿出了城， 在城东坐下； 他在那里搭了一座棚， 坐在棚荫之下， 要看看那城究竟怎样。
6 耶和华 神安排一棵蓖麻， 使它长起来高过约拿， 成了阴影遮盖他的头， 免他受苦； 约拿因这棵蓖麻， 就大大欢畅。
7 次日黎明的时候， 神安排一条虫子， 蛀蚀这棵蓖麻， 蓖麻就枯槁了。
8 日出的时候， 神又安排炎热的东风。烈日晒在约拿的头上， 以致发昏， 他就为自己求死， 说： "我死了比活着还好。"
9 神问约拿： "你因这棵蓖麻这样发怒， 对不对呢？"约拿说： "我发怒以至于死都是对的。"
10 耶和华说： "这棵蓖麻， 不是你栽种的， 也不是你使它长大的， 一夜长成， 一夜死去， 你尚且爱惜它，
11 何况这尼尼微大城， 其中不晓得分辨左右手的有十二万多人， 并且有许多牲畜， 我怎能不爱惜呢？"