Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious.
He prayed to the LORD: “Please, LORD, isn’t this what I thought while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.
Jonah left the city and found a place east of it. He made himself a shelter there and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
Then the LORD God appointed a plant, and it grew over Jonah to provide shade for his head to rescue him from his trouble.[fn] Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
So the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you did not labor over and did not grow. It appeared in a night and perished in a night.