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Read Full Chapter (Jonah 4) Jonah 4:6-7 KJV
"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. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered."
Jonah 4:6-7 in Context (Verses 3–10 KJV)
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Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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¶ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?*
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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 shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
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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.**
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But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, 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.*
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And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.**
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Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:**