1. But this greatly displeased Jonah, and he became angry.
2. He prayed to the Lord, “O Lord, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I fled at first toward Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in kindness, repenting of punishment.
3. So now, Lord, please take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4. But the Lord asked, “Are you right to be angry?”
5. Jonah then left the city for a place to the east of it, where he built himself a hut and waited under it in the shade, to see what would happen to the city.