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Jonah 4:7
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
Jonah 4:7 · Webster Bible
Jonah 4:7 in other translations
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
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In context
4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
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 shade, 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 shade 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 rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
8 And it came to pass, when the sun rose that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live.
9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] to death.
10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
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