{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/jonah/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T22:45:31.467Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Jonah","bookSlug":"jonah","chapter":4,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":11},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And 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 shade, till he might see what would become of the city."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And Jehovah Elohim prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his trouble. And Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, unto death."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And Jehovah said, Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Jonah 4 (DBT)","markdown":"[Jonah 4](https://primebible.com/dbt/jonah/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/jonah/4 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}