Charles Ellicott Commentary Jonah 4:5

"Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city." — Jonah 4:5 (ASV)

So Jonah went out. —The explanation given in the preceding note avoids the necessity of giving the verb in this clause a pluperfect force, which otherwise would be necessary to account for the prophet’s continued expectation of the destruction of Nineveh after his irritation at the Divine clemency towards it.

Booth — i.e., of boughs, like those used at the Feast of Tabernacles. (See next Note.)