Waiting For Judgement

Jonah 4

1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed tothe LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in mycountry? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are agracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, andrelenting from disaster. 3 Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for itis better for me to die than to live.” 4 And the LORD said, “Do you do well to beangry?”

5 Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth forhimself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become ofthe city. 6 Now the LORD God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah,that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonahwas exceedingly glad because of the plant. 7 But when dawn came up the next day,God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered. 8 When the sunrose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head ofJonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better forme to die than to live.” 9 But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for theplant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.” 10 And theLORD said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make itgrow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. 11 And should not Ipity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who donot know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

(ESV)