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Jonah 4:7
Jonah 4:7 is verse 7 of Jonah chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
King James Version
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
World English Bible
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
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Jonah 4:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.
6 So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
7 When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9 Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Psalms 30:6In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
Psalms 30:7O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
Psalms 102:10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Psalms 90:6in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
Isaiah 40:8The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
Joel 1:12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.