Jonah 4:8-11

8When the sun came up God appointed a scorching 1east wind, and the 2sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “3Death is better to me than life.”

9Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to death.” 10Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which 4came up overnight and perished 5overnight. 11Should I not 6have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not 7know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many 8animals?”