约拿的愤怒和神的怜悯
这事令约拿大大不悦，甚至发怒。
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2他就向耶和华祷告，说：“耶和华啊，这不就是我仍在本国的时候所说的吗？我知道你是有恩惠，有怜悯的神，不轻易发怒，有丰盛的慈爱，并且会改变心意，不降那灾难。我就是因为这样，才急速逃往他施去的呀！And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
3耶和华啊，现在求你取走我的性命吧！因为我死了比活着更好。”Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4耶和华说：“你这样发怒，对吗？”Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
5约拿出城，坐在城的东边，在那里为自己搭了一座棚。他坐在棚子的荫下，要看看城里会发生什么事。So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
6耶和华神安排了一棵蓖麻，使它生长高过约拿，影子遮盖他的头，使他免受苦难；约拿因这棵蓖麻大大欢喜。And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7次日黎明，神却安排一条虫来咬这蓖麻，以致枯干。But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
8太阳出来的时候，神安排炎热的东风，太阳曝晒约拿的头，使他发昏，他就为自己求死，说：“我死了比活着更好！”And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9神对约拿说：“你因这棵蓖麻这样发怒，对吗？”他说：“我发怒以至于死，都是对的！”And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
10耶和华说：“这棵蓖麻你没有为它操劳，也不是你使它长大的；它一夜生长，一夜枯死，你尚且爱惜；Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
11何况这尼尼微大城，其中不能分辨左右手的就有十二万多人，还有许多牲畜，我岂能不爱惜呢？”And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?