But it displeased Yunus very much, and he was angry. 2He prayed to Allah, and said, “Please, Allah, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm. 3Therefore now, Allah, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.“
4Allah said, “Is it right for you to be angry?“
5Then Yunus went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city. 6Allah Ta’ala prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Yunus, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Yunus was very glad because of the vine. 7But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered. 8It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Yunus’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.“
9God said to Yunus, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?“
He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.“
10Allah said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. 11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?“