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 [a]till he might see what should be done in the city.

And the Lord God prepared a [b]gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, and 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 4:5 For he doubted as yet whether God would show them mercy or not, and therefore after forty days he departed out of the city, looking what issue God would send.
  2. Jonah 4:6 Which was a further means, to cover him from the heat of the sun, as he remained in his booth.

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