Jonah’s Anger at the LORD’s Compassion 1 RV But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. BSB BSB: Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
2 RV And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repentest thee of the evil. BSB BSB: So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
3 RV Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. BSB BSB: And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 RV And the LORD said, Doest thou well to be angry? BSB BSB: But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
5 RV Then 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. BSB BSB: Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
7 RV But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. BSB BSB: When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
8 RV 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, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. BSB BSB: As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9 RV And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry even unto death. BSB BSB: Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”