4:5 Jonah left the city and sat down east ¹  of it. ²  He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city. ³  4:6 The Lord God appointed ⁴  a little plant ⁵  and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue ⁶  him from his misery. ⁷  Now Jonah was very delighted ⁸  about the little plant.

4:7 So God sent ⁹  a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up. 4:8 When the sun began to shine, God sent ¹⁰  a hot ¹¹  east wind. So the sun beat down ¹²  on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, ¹³  and said, “I would rather die than live!” ¹⁴  4:9 God said to Jonah, “Are you really so very angry ¹⁵  about the little plant?” And he said, “I am as angry ¹⁶  as I could possibly be!” ¹⁷  4:10 The Lord said, “You were upset ¹⁸  about this little ¹⁹  plant, something for which you have not worked nor did you do anything to make it grow. It grew up overnight and died the next day. ²⁰  4:11 Should I ²¹  not be even more ²²  concerned ²³  about Nineveh, this enormous city? ²⁴  There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, ²⁵  as well as many animals!” ²⁶