Jonah 4:1-6 ▼

1 And this displeased Ionas greatly, and he was angrye within him selfe.

2 And he prayed vnto the Lorde, and saide: I pray thee O Lorde, was not this my saying when I was yet in my countrey? therfore I hasted to flee into Tharsis: For I knewe that thou art a gratious God, and mercifull, long suffering, and of great kindnesse, and repentest thee of euill.

3 And nowe O Lorde, take I beseche thee my lyfe from me: for it is better for me to dye, then to lyue.

4 Then saide the Lord, Doest thou wel to be angry?

5 And Ionas went out of the citie, and sate him downe on the east side thereof, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadowe, till he might see what should be done in the citie.

6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it spring vp ouer Ionas, that it might be a shadowe ouer his head, to deliuer him from his griefe: So Ionas was exceeding glad of the gourde.