Jonah 1:1-3 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord and went down to Joppa and he found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare thereof and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

Jonah wanted none of this and figured, hey! I'm outta here. He must have figured God wouldn't see him on the ship he took. He figured if he could get away, he'd be out of this situation he didn't like.

Jonah 1:4-8 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. Then the mariners were afraid and cried every man unto his God and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship and he lay and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. And they said every one to his fellow, Come and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots and the lot fell upon Jonah. Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, what did you do that caused this evil ito be upon us? What is your occupation and whence come you? What is your country and of what people are you?

Jonah 1:9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which has made the sea and the dry land.

Jonah 1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid and said unto him, Why have you done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.

Jonah 1:11-15 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto you, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought and was tempestuous. And he said unto them, Take me up and cast me forth into the sea and so shall the sea be calm unto you. For I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land, but they could not, for the sea wrought and was tempestuous against them. Wherefore they cried unto the Lord and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life and lay not upon us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as you thought best. So they took up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea. And the sea ceased from her raging.

Jonah 1:16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord and made vows.

Jonah 1:17 Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 2:1,2 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord and he heard me. Out of the belly of hell cried I and you heard my voice.

Jonah 2:3 For you have cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas and the floods compassed me about. All your billows.(a large wave or swell {a bulging volume of water rising up} of water).and your waves passed over me.

Jonah 2:4 Then I said, I am cast out of your sight, yet I will look again toward your holy temple.

Jonah 2:5-8 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul. The depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The Earth with her bars was about me for ever. Yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. When my soul fainted within me.(like Derek, Jonah here hit the rock bottom of his life)..I remembered the Lord and my prayer was heard by God. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Mercy was available to them through their own spirit if they were attuned to it.

Jonah 2:9 But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

Jonah 2:10 And the Lord spake unto the fish and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Jonah 3:1-5 And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time.(though Jonah gave up on God, God didn't give up on Jonah:.Romans 9:19 "...for who has resisted his will?"), saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding large city of three days' journey to cross it. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey and he spoke aloud and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast.(to abstain from food and/or water for awhile).and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 

Jonah 3:6-8 For word came unto the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe from him and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing. Let them not feed, nor drink water, but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God. Yea, let them turn every one from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands.

Jonah 3:9,10 Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way and God changed His mind about doing the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not.

Jonah 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly.(Jonah had some issues; he reluctantly did what the Creator asked him, after first getting away {verse 2}, but he resented the request and showed the resentment by his attitude of hoping the people wouldn't change so they would be destroyed).and he was very angry.

Jonah 4:2 And he prayed unto the Lord and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying.(not my way to go and do this; this just isn't my kind of style), when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish.(I got the hell outta there). For I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness and repent you of the evil.(I figured that you God would see it my way when you saw that I wanted nothing to do with all this by my actions of going away from what you wanted me to do; Jonah wanted God to learn from Jonah, Ha ha! Jonah figured he was on the Earth so God could learn from him).

Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.(because Jonah figured the main reason he was on Earth was so God could learn from hiim; Jonah's approach to God had some arrogance attached to it). 

Jonah 4:4 Then said the Lord, Do you well to be angry.(why does it make you feel good to be so angry toward helping others in this way?)?

Jonah 4:5 So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city and there made him a booth.(a temporary dwelling place).and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.(he was hoping to see its destruction).

Jonah 4:6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

Jonah 4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day and it smote the gourd that it withered. 

Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:9 And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

Notice Jonah's attitude. He cared mostly for his immediate comfort, not giving a care about getting the message God gave him to the people in the city of Nineveh for the saving of those people there who would listen and take the message to heart,

Jonah 4:10 Then said the Lord, You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not laboured, neither made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.

Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand individuals that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand.(children).and also much cattle? ....next Old Testament book is Micah