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The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah a second time. (Jonah 3, 1)
Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare; to cross it took three days. (Jonah 3, 3)
Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city and then proclaimed, 'Only forty days more and Nineveh will be overthrown.' (Jonah 3, 4)
He then had it proclaimed throughout Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles, as follows: 'No person or animal, herd or flock, may eat anything; they may not graze, they may not drink any water. (Jonah 3, 7)
God saw their efforts to renounce their evil ways. And God relented about the disaster which he had threatened to bring on them, and did not bring it. (Jonah 3, 10)
So now, Yahweh, please take my life, for I might as well be dead as go on living.' (Jonah 4, 3)
Yahweh God then ordained that a castor-oil plant should grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head and soothe his ill-humour; Jonah was delighted with the castor-oil plant. (Jonah 4, 6)
But at dawn the next day, God ordained that a worm should attack the castor-oil plant -- and it withered. (Jonah 4, 7)
Next, when the sun rose, God ordained that there should be a scorching east wind; the sun beat down so hard on Jonah's head that he was overcome and begged for death, saying, 'I might as well be dead as go on living.' (Jonah 4, 8)
God said to Jonah, 'Are you right to be angry about the castor-oil plant?' He replied, 'I have every right to be angry, mortally angry!' (Jonah 4, 9)
Yahweh replied, 'You are concerned for the castor-oil plant which has not cost you any effort and which you did not grow, which came up in a night and has perished in a night. (Jonah 4, 10)
So why should I not be concerned for Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, to say nothing of all the animals?' (Jonah 4, 11)
