[Sidenote:  Jonah 1:17-2:1, 10] Then Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah and Jonah was in the belly of this fish three days and three nights.  Thereupon Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God, out of the belly of the fish.  And Jehovah spoke to the fish, and it threw up Jonah upon the dry land.

[Sidenote:  Jonah 3:1-4] And the word of Jehovah came to Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go to that great city, Nineveh, and preach to it what I shall tell thee.  So Jonah rose and went to Nineveh, as Jehovah said.  Now Nineveh was a great city before God, of three days’ journey.  And Jonah began by going through the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

[Sidenote:  Jonah 3:5-9] And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.  And when word came to the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, and took off his robe, and dressed in sackcloth, and sat in the dust.  And he made proclamation and published in Nineveh:  By the decree of the king and his nobles:  Man, beast, herd, and flock shall not taste anything; let them neither eat nor drink water; But let them clothe themselves with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily to God, and turn each from his evil way, and from the act of violence which they have in hand.  Who knows but that God may relent, and turn from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

[Sidenote:  Jonah 3:10] And God saw their works, how they turned from their evil way; and God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and did it not.

[Sidenote:  Jonah 4:1-5] But it displeased Jonah greatly, and he was angry.  And he prayed to Jehovah, and said, Ah now, Jehovah, was not this what I said when I was yet in mine own country?  Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in love, and relenting of evil.  Therefore, O Jehovah, take now, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live!  And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?  Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat down before the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it, until he might see what would become of the city.

[Sidenote:  Jonah 4:6-11] And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head.  So Jonah rejoiced exceedingly over the gourd.  But as the dawn appeared the next day God prepared a worm and it injured the gourd, so that it withered.  And when the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind.  And the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he was faint, and begged for himself that he might die saying, It is better for me to die than to live.  And God said to Jonah, Is it well for thee to be angry about the gourd?  And he said, It is well for me to be angry, even to death!  And Jehovah said, Thou carest for a gourd, for which thou hast not troubled thyself, nor hast thou brought it up—­a thing that came in a night and hath perished in a night.  Shall I, indeed, not care for the great city, Nineveh, in which there are one hundred and twenty thousand human beings who know not their right hand from their left; besides much cattle?