{"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/web/jonah/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:13:37.661Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 angry."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He prayed to Yahweh, and said, |Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.|"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Yahweh said, |Is it right for you to be angry?|"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, |It is better for me to die than to live.|"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"God said to Jonah, |Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?| He said, |I am right to be angry, even to death.|"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Yahweh said, |You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Jonah 4 (WEB)","markdown":"[Jonah 4](https://primebible.com/web/jonah/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/jonah/4 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}