Jonah 4:7
Jonah chapter 4 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Context
v.6And 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.
v.7This passage
v.8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 1:21
and he said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.
- Psalms 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Isaiah 40:6
The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
- Psalms 102:10
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
- Joel 1:12
The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.
- Psalms 30:6
As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.