Jonah 4:6-8

Good News Translation

⁶ Then the Lord God made a plant grow up over Jonah to give him some shade, so that he would be more comfortable. Jonah was extremely pleased with the plant. ⁷ But at dawn the next day, at God's command, a worm attacked the plant, and it died. ⁸ After the sun had risen, God sent a hot east wind, and Jonah was about to faint from the heat of the sun beating down on his head. So he wished he were dead.^[a] “I am better off dead than alive,” he said.