The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying,

“While I was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
And my prayer came to You,
Into Your holy temple.

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,

But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”

Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.