¹約拿不悅約拿對這事非常不高興，並且發起怒來，

¹But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

²就向耶和華禱告，說：“耶和華啊！我還在本國的時候，不是這樣說過嗎？我知道你是有恩典有憐憫的　神，不輕易發怒，並且有豐盛的慈愛，轉意不降災禍，所以我才急忙逃往他施去。

²And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

³耶和華啊！現在求你取去我的性命吧，因為我死了比活著還好。”

³Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁴主安排一棵蓖麻耶和華回答說：“你這樣發怒對不對呢？”

⁴And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?

⁵約拿出了城，在城東坐下；他在那裡搭了一座棚，坐在棚蔭之下，要看看那城究竟怎樣。

⁵Then 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 shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

⁶耶和華　神安排一棵蓖麻，使它長起來高過約拿，成了陰影遮蓋他的頭，免他受苦；約拿因這棵蓖麻，就大大歡暢。

⁶And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

⁷次日黎明的時候，　神安排一條蟲子，蛀蝕這棵蓖麻，蓖麻就枯槁了。

⁷But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

⁸日出的時候，　神又安排炎熱的東風。烈日曬在約拿的頭上，以致發昏，他就為自己求死，說：“我死了比活著還好。”

⁸And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁹　神問約拿：“你因這棵蓖麻這樣發怒，對不對呢？”約拿說：“我發怒以至於死都是對的。”

⁹And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

¹⁰主教訓約拿耶和華說：“這棵蓖麻，不是你栽種的，也不是你使它長大的，一夜長成，一夜死去，你尚且愛惜它，

¹⁰And Jehovah said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

¹¹何況這尼尼微大城，其中不曉得分辨左右手的有十二萬多人，並且有許多牲畜，我怎能不愛惜呢？”

¹¹and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?