Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came up before me.

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

And Jehovah God prepared a plant, and it came up over Jonah, to be shade over his head, in order to deliver him from his misery. And Jonah rejoiced with great joy over the plant.

When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, and it withered.

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.

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: