1And it was evil to Jonah—a great evil—and it burned him.2And he prayed to the LORD and said, "Ah, LORD! Is not this what I said when I was still in my land? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish! For I knew that you are a God gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and one who relents from calamity."3And now, LORD, take my nephesh from me, for my death is better than my life.4And the LORD said, "Is it good for you to burn hot?"5And Jonah went out from the city and sat to the east of the city. And he made a sukka for himself there and sat under it in the shade, until he would see what would become of the city.6And the LORD God appointed a qiqayon, and it came up over Jonah to be shade over his head to deliver him from his moral evil, and Jonah rejoiced over the qiqayon with great joy.7And God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn the next day, and it struck the qiqayon, and it withered.8And it came about as the sun rose, and God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck the head of Jonah, and he fainted, and he asked his life force to die, and he said, "Good—my death from my life."9And God said to Jonah, "Is it good? It burned for you over the qiqayon." And he said, "It is good. It burned for me to death."10And the LORD said, "You have had pity on the qiqayon, which you did not labor over nor make great, which was a son of a night and perished a son of a night."11And should I not spare Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve ten-thousands of humanity who do not know between their right hand and their left, and much beast?