Jonah 4:7 KJV — MannaFest

Jonah 4:7

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

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ASV

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

WEB

When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Jonah — A reluctant prophet fleeing from Nineveh, a storm, a great fish, a repentant city, and a bush. The only prophet whose book is entirely narrative — and whose complaint against God's mercy is the book's real subject.

Author: The book is anonymous; Jonah son of Amittai is the subject (1:1; cf. 2 Kings 14:25)
Date: Jonah's historical ministry c. 8th c. BC under Jeroboam II; book's composition disputed

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Joel 1:12
The vine is dried up, 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: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Psalms 90:5–6
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms 102:10
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Psalms 30:6–7
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
Isaiah 40:6–8
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

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A small worm at the root destroys a large gourd. So it takes but little to make our creature comforts wither. It should silence discontent to remember, that when our gourd is gone, our God is not gone. the next day--after Jonah was so "exceeding glad" (compare Ps 80:7).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

The gourd withered the next day after it sprang up; our comforts come forth like flowers and are soon cut down. When we please ourselves most with them, and promise ourselves most from them, we are disappointed.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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