Jonah 4:7 {6}
Good News Translation
But at dawn the next day, at God's command, a worm attacked the plant, and it died.

New Revised Standard Version
But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered.

Contemporary English Version
but early the next morning the LORD sent a worm to chew on the vine, and the vine dried up.

New American Bible
But the next morning at dawn God provided a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonah, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonah was exceeding glad of the ivy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonah, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonah was exceeding glad of the ivy.

prepared.

Job 1:21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Psalm 30:6,7 And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved. . . .

Psalm 102:10 Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

it withered.

Psalm 90:5,6 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

Joel 1:12 The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.

Context
Jonah's Anger at the LORD's Compassion
6Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of the city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall the city. 7And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonah, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonah was exceeding glad of the ivy.8But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.…
Cross References
Joel 1:12
The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.

Jonah 4:6
Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of the city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall the city.

Jonah 4:6
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