7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.


In Context

4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry?

5 And 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 Jehovah Elohim 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 trouble. And Jonah was exceeding glad because 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 arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might 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, unto death.

Jonah 4:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:7But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine so that it withered.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:7But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:7And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.