¹Asi zvakaodza mwoyo waJona kwazvo, akatsamwa.

¹And it is grievous unto Jonah — a great evil — and he is displeased at it;

²Akanyengetera Jehovha, akati, Aiwa, Jehovha, handizvo zvandakataura, ndichiri munyika yangu here? Saka ndakachimbidzika kutizira Tashishi; nekuti ndakanga ndichiziva kuti muri Mwari ane nyasha, ane tsitsi, asingachimbidziki kutsamwa, azere nounyoro, muchizvidemba pamakafunga kuuyisa zvakaipa.

²and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land — therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish — that I have known that Thou [art] a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

³Saka Jehovha, zvino chinditorerai henyu upenyu hwangu; nekuti zviri nani kwandiri kuti ndife pakuti ndirarame.

³And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better [is] my death than my life.`

⁴Jehovha akati, Zvakanaka here zvawatsamwa?

⁴And Jehovah saith, `Is doing good displeasing to thee?`

⁵Ipapo Jona akabuda muguta, akandogara kurutivi rwamabvazuva rweguta, akazvivakirapo musasa, ndokugaramo mumumvuri, achiti ndigoona zvichaitirwa guta.

⁵And Jonah goeth forth from the city, and sitteth on the east of the city, and maketh to himself there a booth, and sitteth under it in the shade, till that he seeth what is in the city.

⁶Jehovha Mwari ndokuraira muti womuchindwe, akaumeresa kumusoro kwaJona, kuti uve mumvuri pamusoro wake, shungu dzake dzinyaradzwe. Zvino Jona akafarira kwazvo muti womuchindwi.

⁶And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd [with] great joy.

⁷Asi nezuva rakatevera Mwari akaraira gonye mangwanani, rikamunya muchindwi, ukasvava.

⁷And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.

⁸Zvino zuva rakati richibuda, Mwari akaraira mhepo inopisa inobva mabvazuva; zuva rikabaya musoro waJona, akaziya, akakumbira kuti afe hake, akati, Zviri nani kwandiri kuti ndife pakuti ndirarame.

⁸And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better [is] my death than my life.`

⁹Mwari akati kuna Jona, Zvakanaka here zvawatsamwira muchindwi? Akati, Zvakanaka kuti nditsamwe, kusvikira parufu pamene.

⁹And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?` and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me — unto death.`

¹⁰Jehovha akati, Iwe wakange une tsitsi nomuti wemuchindwi wausina kutamburira, kana kuumeresa, iwo, wakavapo neusiku humwe, ukapararazve neusiku humwe;

¹⁰And Jehovah saith, `Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou didst not labour, neither didst thou nourish it, which a son of a night was, and a son of a night perished,

¹¹ko zvino ini handizaifanira kuva netsitsi neNinivhe, riya guta guru, muna vanhu vanopfuura zviuru zvine zana namakumi maviri, vasingazivi kuti ruoko rwavo rworudyi kana ruoko rwavo rworuboshwe ndorupi, uye zvipfuwo zvizhinji here?

¹¹and I — have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left — and much cattle!`