Jonah 4:7

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Joel 1:12

The vine is withered, and the fig tree languishes. The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered. For joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Psalm 102:10

because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou have taken me up, and cast me away.

Job 1:21

And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

Jonah 4:6

And 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 misery. So Jonah was very glad because of the gourd.