Jonah 4:6-11

6So the Lord God designated a 1plant, and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to 2relieve him of his discomfort. And Jonah 3was overjoyed about the plant. 7But God designated a worm when dawn came the next day, and it attacked the plant and it 4withered. 8And when the sun came up God designated a scorching 5east wind, and the 6sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint, and he begged with all his soul to die, saying, “7Death is better to me than life!”

9But God said to Jonah, “Do you have a good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to the point of 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 8came up overnight and perished 9overnight. 11Should I not also 10have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 people, who do not 11know the difference between their right hand and their left, as well as many 12animals?”