Jonah 4:7

But before dawn the next day, God sent a worm that chewed the vine, with the result that the vine withered.

Translation for Translators

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

6Then Yahweh God caused a vine to grow up immediately to shade Jonah’s head from the sun and make him feel more comfortable. Jonah was very happy about having the vine over his head.

8Then, when the sun rose high in the sky, God sent a very hot wind from the east, and the sun shone very strongly on Jonah’s head, with the result that he felt faint. He wanted to die, and he said, “It would be better for me to die than to continue to live!”

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Cross References

Psalms 30:6As for me, when I had no troubles, I said to myself, “No one will defeat me!”

Joel 1:12The grapevines and the fig trees have withered, and the pomegranate trees and palm trees and apricot trees have also dried up. The people are no longer joyful.

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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