{"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/kjv/jonah/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T23:46:27.885Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Jonah","bookSlug":"jonah","chapter":4,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":11},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, <i>was</i> not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou <i>art</i> a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for <i>it is</i> better for me to die than to live."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made <i>it</i> 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."},{"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 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, <i>It is</i> 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, <i>even</i> unto death."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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 <i>also</i> much cattle?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Jonah 4 (KJV)","markdown":"[Jonah 4](https://primebible.com/kjv/jonah/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/jonah/4 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}