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Jonah 4:7

But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gourd;   Miracles;   Presumption;   Worm;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Worm;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gourd;   Worm;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gourd;   Insects;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jonah;   Jonas;   Worm;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gourd,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gourd;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Worm;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Jonah, the Book of;   Worm;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Worm;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, and it withered.
Hebrew Names Version
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
King James Version (1611)
But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
King James Version
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
English Standard Version
But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.
New American Standard Bible
But God designated a worm when dawn came the next day, and it attacked the plant and it withered.
New Century Version
But the next day when the sun rose, God sent a worm to attack the plant so that it died.
Amplified Bible
But God prepared a worm when morning dawned the next day, and it attacked the plant and it withered.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, & it smote the gourd, that it withered.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.
Legacy Standard Bible
But God appointed a worm at the breaking of dawn the next day, and it struck the plant, and it dried up.
Berean Standard Bible
When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant 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.
Complete Jewish Bible
But at dawn the next day God prepared a worm, which attacked the castor-bean plant, so that it dried up.
Darby Translation
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Easy-to-Read Version
The next morning, God sent a worm to eat part of the plant. The worm began eating the plant, and the plant died.
George Lamsa Translation
But the next day at dawn, God commanded a worm, and it smote the gourd so that it withered.
Good News Translation
But at dawn the next day, at God's command, a worm attacked the plant, and it died.
Lexham English Bible
So God appointed a worm at daybreak the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered.
Literal Translation
But God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn of the next day, and it struck the plant, and it withered.
American Standard Version
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But God prepared a worme, when the morning rose the next day, which smote the gourde, that it withered.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it smote the gourd, and it withered away.
English Revised Version
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
World English Bible
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And God made redi a worm, in stiyng up of grei dai on the morewe; and it smoot the yuy, and it driede up.
Update Bible Version
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Webster's Bible Translation
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
New English Translation
So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.
New King James Version
But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant that it withered.
New Living Translation
But God also arranged for a worm! The next morning at dawn the worm ate through the stem of the plant so that it withered away.
New Life Bible
But at the beginning of the next day, God sent a worm to destroy the plant and it dried up.
New Revised Standard
But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But God appointed a worm, at the uprisings of the dawn, the next day, - and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.
Revised Standard Version
But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered.
Young's Literal Translation
And God appointeth a worm at the going up of the dawn on the morrow, and it smiteth the gourd, and it drieth up.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But vpo the nexte morow agaynst the springe of the daye, the LORDE ordened a worme, which smote the wylde vyne, so that it wethered awaye.
THE MESSAGE
But then God sent a worm. By dawn of the next day, the worm had bored into the shade tree and it withered away. The sun came up and God sent a hot, blistering wind from the east. The sun beat down on Jonah's head and he started to faint. He prayed to die: "I'm better off dead!"

Contextual Overview

5 Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town. 6 And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine. 7 But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead. 8 Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life. 9 And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry. 10 And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night; 11 And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

prepared: Job 1:21, Psalms 30:6, Psalms 30:7, Psalms 102:10

it withered: Psalms 90:5, Psalms 90:6, Isaiah 40:6-8, Joel 1:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:39 - for the worms Hosea 5:12 - rottenness Jonah 4:8 - that God James 1:11 - risen

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
Genesis 4:6
And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?
Genesis 4:8
And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.
Genesis 4:9
And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 4:10
And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;
Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
Genesis 4:13
And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength.
Genesis 19:21
And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.
Numbers 32:23
But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day,.... That God that prepared this plant to rise so suddenly, almost as soon prepared a worm to destroy it; for it rose up one night, continued one whole day, to the great delight of Jonah; and by the morning of the following day this worm or grub was prepared in, it, or sent to it, to the root of it: this shows that God is the Creator of the least as well as the largest of creatures, of worms as well as whales, contrary to the notion of Valentinus, Marcion, and Apelles; who, as Jerom s says, introduce another creator of ants, worms, fleas, locusts, c. and another of the heavens, earth, sea, and angels: but it is much that. Arnobius t, an orthodox ancient Christian father, should deny such creatures to be the work of God, and profess his ignorance of the Maker of them. His words are,

"should we deny flies, beetles, worms, mice, weasels, and moths, to be the work of the King Omnipotent, it does not follow that it should be required of us to say who made and formed them for we may without blame be ignorant who gave them their original;''

whereas, in the miracle of the lice, the magicians of Egypt themselves owned that the finger of God was there, and were out of their power to effect; and to the Prophet Amos the great God was represented in a vision as making locusts or grasshoppers, Amos 7:1; and indeed the smallest insect or reptile is a display of the wisdom and power of God, and not at all below his dignity and greatness to produce; and for which there are wise reasons in nature and providence, as here for the production of this worm: the same God that prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and a gourd to shadow him, and an east wind to blow upon him, prepared this worm to destroy his shade, and try his patience:

and it smote the gourd, that it withered; it bit its root, and its moisture dried up, and it withered away at once, and became useless: that same hand that gives mercies can take them away, and that very suddenly, in a trice, in a few hours, as in the case of Job; and sometimes very secretly and invisibly, that men are not aware of; their substance wastes, and they fall to decay, and they can scarcely tell the reason of it; there is a worm at the root of their enjoyments, which kills them; God is as a moth and rottenness unto them; and he does this sometimes by small means, by little instruments, as he plagued Pharaoh and the Egyptians with lice and flies.

s Prooem. in Philemon. ad Paulam & Eustochium. t Adv. Gentes, l. 2. p. 95.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When the morning rose - , i. e., in the earliest dawn, before the actual sunrise. For one day Jonah enjoyed the refreshment of the palm-christ. In early dawn, it still promised the shadow; just ere it was most needed, at God’s command, it withered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jonah 4:7. But God prepared a worm — By being eaten through the root, the plant, losing its nourishment, would soon wither; and this was the case in the present instance.


 
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