KJ3 Literal Translation
Jonah 4
Jonah asks for Jehovah's mercy and is forgiven.
1But it was a great calamity in the eye of Jonah, and it kindled anger for him.
2And he prayed to Jehovah, and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my word while I was on my own land? On account of this at first I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious God and compassionate, slow to anger, and great of mercy, and One who has pity over calamity.
3And now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.
4And Jehovah said, Is being angry being pleasing for you?
5And Jonah went out from the city and sat on the east of the city. And he made there a booth for himself and sat under it in the shade until he should see what would happen in the city.
6And Jehovah God appointed a plant, and it came up over Jonah to be shade over his head, in order to deliver him from his misery. And Jonah rejoiced over the plant with great joy.
7But God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn of the morrow, and it struck the plant, and it withered.
8And it happened when the sun shone, God had appointed a scorching east wind; and the sun struck Jonah's head, so that he fainted; and he asked for his life to death. And he said, Better is my death than my life.
9And God said to Jonah, Is it right your being angry and being pleasing for you over the plant? And he said, Being angry and being pleasing is right for me, even to death.
10And Jehovah said, You had pity on the plant for which you did not labor with it, and not you made it grow, which was the son of a night and it perished the son of a night,
11and should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city in which there is in it more than twelve ten thousands of mankind who do not know between the right and the left hand, and many cattle?
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