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Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and ready to relent from punishing. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>And now, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said, “Is it right for you to be angry?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Then Jonah went out of the city and sat down east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, waiting to see what would become of the city.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God appointed a bush,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26847a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and made it come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort; so Jonah was very happy about the bush. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jonah Is Reproved</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?” And he said, “Yes, angry enough to die.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said, “You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labor and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jonah 4:6">Jonah 4:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>qiqayon</i>, possibly <i>the castor bean plant</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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