1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 He 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. 3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."

4 Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"

5 Then 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. 6 Yahweh 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. 7 But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered. 8 When 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."

9 God 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."

10 Yahweh 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. 11 Shouldn’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?"

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？"