1<\/sup>And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was angry:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Then Jonas went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of the city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall the city.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonas was exceeding glad of the ivy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>And shall not I spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?<\/span> <\/p>\n