10AND HE SAW <THE> GOD <OBJ.> DEEDS THEIR THAT THEY TURNED BACK FROM WAY THEIR <THE> EVIL AND HE RELENTED <THE> GOD ON THE EVIL WHICH HE HAD SAID TO DO TO <THE> THEM AND NOT HE DID [IT] 10When God saw their actions— that they had turned from their evil ways— He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
1AND IT WAS DISPLEASING TO JONAH DISPLEASURE GREAT AND IT BURNED TO <THE> HIM Jonah’s Anger at the LORD’s Compassion 1Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry
2AND HE PRAYED TO YAHWEH AND HE SAID I BEG YOU O YAHWEH ¿ NOT [WAS] THIS WORD MY UNTIL WAS I ON OWN LAND MY THERE- -FORE I DID [THE] FIRST TIME TO FLEE TARSHISH TOWARDS THAT I KNEW THAT YOU [ARE] A GOD GRACIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE LONG OF ANGER<S> AND GREAT OF COVENANT LOYALTY AND [WHO] RELENTS ON <THE> EVIL 2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion— One who relents from sending disaster.
3AND THEREFORE O YAHWEH TAKE PLEASE <OBJ.> LIFE MY FROM ME FOR [IS] GOOD DEATH MY MORE THAN LIFE MY 3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4AND HE SAID YAHWEH ¿ RIGHTLY <DO WELL> DOES IT BURN TO <THE> YOU 4But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”
5AND HE WENT OUT JONAH FROM THE CITY AND HE SAT FROM EAST OF THE CITY AND HE MADE FOR <THE> HIMSELF THERE A SHELTER AND HE SAT UNDER IT IN THE SHADE UNTIL THAT HE WILL SEE WHAT? WILL IT BE IN THE CITY 5Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
6AND HE APPOINTED YAHWEH GOD A PLANT AND IT WENT UP <FROM> OVER <TO> JONAH TO BE SHADE OVER HEAD HIS TO DELIVER <TO> <THE> HIM FROM DISTRESS HIS AND HE REJOICED JONAH ON THE PLANT A JOY GREAT 6So the LORD God appointed a vine,*NoteCloseHebrew qiqayon; that is, possibly the castor oil plant; also in verses 7, 9, and 10 and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
7AND HE APPOINTED <THE> GOD A WORM WHEN CAME UP THE DAWN TO THE NEXT DAY AND IT ATTACKED <OBJ.> THE PLANT AND IT WITHERED 7When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
8AND IT WAS WHEN AROSE THE SUN AND HE APPOINTED GOD A WIND AN EAST WIND HOT AND IT STRUCK THE SUN ON [THE] HEAD OF JONAH AND HE BECAME FAINT AND HE ASKED <OBJ.> LIFE HIS TO DIE AND HE SAID [IS] GOOD DEATH MY MORE THAN LIFE MY 8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9AND HE SAID GOD TO JONAH ¿ RIGHTLY <DO WELL> DOES IT BURN TO <THE> YOU ON THE PLANT AND HE SAID RIGHTLY <DO WELL> IT BURNS TO <THE> ME TO DEATH 9Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
10AND HE SAID YAHWEH YOU YOU HAD COMPASSION ON THE PLANT WHICH NOT YOU HAD TOILED IN <THE> IT AND NOT YOU HAD MADE GROW IT THAT A SON OF A NIGHT IT WAS AND A SON OF A NIGHT IT PERISHED 10But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
11AND I NOT WILL I HAVE COMPASSION? ON NINEVEH THE CITY <THE> GREAT WHICH THERE IN <THE> IT [ARE] MANY MORE THAN TWO [PLUS] TEN TEN THOUSAND PERSON[S] WHO NOT HE DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN RIGHT [HAND] HIS AND LEFT HIS AND LIVESTOCK MUCH 11So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000. people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”