Jonah 4:7

But God made ready a worm when the morning dawned on the morrow, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

In Context

6And the Lord God made ready a gourd, and it grew up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to relieve him from his affliction. And Jonah rejoiced because of the gourd exceedingly.

8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God made ready a hot east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint; and he wished for himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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Cross References

Psalms 30:6(30:7) And I had said indeed in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

Psalms 102:10(102:11) Because of thy indignation and thy wrath; for thou hadst lifted me up, and hast cast me down.

Joel 1:12The vine is made ashamed, and the fig-tree is withered; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dried up; because joy hath ceased from the children of men.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 4:6-11

The Prophet's Discontent; The Withering of the Prophet's Gourd; God's Remonstrance with Jonah. ( b. c. 840.) 5 So 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 shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. 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. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning… Read the whole commentary →

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