When God saw their actions – they turned from their evil way of living! – God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

The ship’s captain approached him and said, “What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!”