Jonah 4:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ And יהוה  Elohim appointed a plant and made it come up over Yonah, to be a shade for his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Yonah greatly rejoiced over the plant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And the Lord God prepared a gourd and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil situation. So Jonah was exceedingly glad [to have the protection] of the gourd.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

Common English Bible

⁶ Then the LORD God provided a shrub, and it grew up over Jonah, providing shade for his head and saving him from his misery. Jonah was very happy about the shrub.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it ascended over the head of Jonah so as to be a shadow over his head, and to protect him (for he had labored hard). And Jonah rejoiced because of the ivy, with great rejoicing.

Jonah 4:6 Cross References

Esther 5:9

And Haman went out that day rejoicing and with a glad heart. But when Haman saw Mordeḵ

Job 7:2

Like a servant who sighs for the shade, and like a hireling longing for his wages,

Proverbs 23:5

Do you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle to the heavens.

Isaiah 39:2

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Amos 6:13

you who are rejoicing over a matter of naught, who say, “Have we not taken horns for ourselves by our own strength?”

Jonah 1:17

But יהוה  appointed a great fish to swallow Yonah. And Yonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 4:5

Then Yonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and made himself a shelter there, and sat under it in the shade, to see what would become of the city.

Jonah 4:7

But as morning dawned the next day Elohim appointed a worm which attacked the plant so that it withered.

Luke 10:20

“But do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names have been written in the heavens.”

1 Corinthians 7:30

and those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, and those who buy as though they did not possess,