Holy Name KJV - 1769 King James Version

 4:1 ¶ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

 4:1 ¶ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

 4:2 And he prayed unto Yahweh, and said, I pray thee, O Yahweh, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious El, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

 4:2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

 4:3 Therefore now, O Yahweh, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

 4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

 4:4 ¶ Then said Yahweh, Doest thou well to be angry?

 4:4 ¶ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

 4:5 So 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 shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

 4:5 So 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 shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

 4:6 And Yahweh Elohim prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

 4:6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

 4:7 But Elohim prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

 4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that Elohim prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live.

 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live.

 4:9 And Elohim said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death.

 4:9 And 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.

 4:10 Then said Yahweh, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

 4:10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

 4:11 And should not I spare 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?

 4:11 And should not I spare 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?