Jonah 4

vayyera el-yonah ra'ah gedolah vayyikhar lo

This displeased Jonah greatly, and he was grieved.

vayyitpallel el-Adonai vayyomar annah Adonai halo-zeh devari ad-heyoti al-admati al-ken qiddamti livroakh tarshishah ki yadati ki attah el-khannun verakhum erekh appayim verav-khesed venikham al-hara'ah

He prayed to GOD, saying, “O ETERNAL One! Isn’t this just what I said when I was still in my own country? That is why I fled beforehand to Tarshish. For I know that You are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in kindness, renouncing punishment.

ve'attah Adonai qakh-na et-nafshi mimmenni ki tov moti mekhayyay

Please, ETERNAL One, take my life, for I would rather die than live.”

vayyomer Adonai hahetev kharah lakh

GOD replied, “Are you that deeply grieved?”

vayyetse yonah min-ha'ir vayyeshev miqqedem la'ir vayya'as lo sham sukkah vayyeshev takhteha batsel ad asher yireh mah-yyihyeh ba'ir

Now Jonah had left the city and found a place east of the city. He made a booth there and sat under it in the shade, until he should see what happened to the city.

vayeman Adonaielohim qiqayon vayya'al me'al leyonah lihyot tsel al-rosho lehatsil lo mera'ato vayyismakh yonah al-haqqiqayon simkhah gedolah

The ETERNAL God provided a ricinus plant, which grew up over Jonah, to provide shade for his head and save him from discomfort. Jonah was very happy about the plant.

vayeman ha'elohim tola'at ba'alot hashakhar lammokhorat vattakh et-haqqiqayon vayyivash

But the next day at dawn God provided a worm, which attacked the plant so that it withered.

vayehi kizroakh hashemesh vayeman elohim ruakh qadim kharishit vattakh hashemesh al-rosh yonah vayyitallaf vayyishal et-nafsho lamut vayyomer tov moti mekhayyay

And when the sun rose, God provided a sultry east wind; the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he became faint. He begged for death, saying, “I would rather die than live.”

vayyomer elohim el-yonah hahetev kharah-lekha al-haqqiqayon vayyomer hetev kharah-li ad-mavet

Then God said to Jonah, “Are you so deeply grieved about the plant?” “Yes,” he replied, “so deeply that I want to die.”

vayyomer Adonai attah khasta al-haqqiqayon asher lo-amalta bo velo giddalto shebbin-laylah hayah uvin-laylah avad

Then GOD said: “You cared about the plant, which you did not work for and which you did not grow, which appeared overnight and perished overnight.

va'ani lo akhus al-nineveh ha'ir haggedolah asher yesh-bah harbeh mishtem-esreh ribbo adam asher lo-yada ben-yemino lismolo uvehemah rabbah

And should not I care about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not yet know their right hand from their left, and many animals as well!”