3. So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
4. The Lord said, “Are you really so very angry?”
5. Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.
6. The Lord God appointed a little plant and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue him from his misery. Now Jonah was very delighted about the little plant.
7. So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.
8. When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said, “I would rather die than live!”