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Jonah 4:5-7
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5 Jonah then left the city for a place to the east of it, where he built himself a hut and waited[a] under it in the shade, to see what would happen to the city. 6 Then the Lord God provided a gourd plant.[b] And when it grew up over Jonah’s head, giving shade that relieved him of any discomfort, Jonah was greatly delighted with the plant. 7 But the next morning at dawn God provided a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:5 Waited: Jonah still hopes his threat of doom will be fulfilled.
  2. 4:6 Gourd plant: the Hebrew word, qiqayon, means here a wide-leafed plant of the cucumber or castor-bean variety.
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