And the Lord said, (A)“Do you do well to be angry?”

Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and (B)made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. Now the Lord God appointed a plant[a] and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort.[b] So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 4:6 Hebrew qiqayon, probably the castor oil plant; also verses 7, 9, 10
  2. Jonah 4:6 Or his evil

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