7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
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; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. …
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)Jonah persists here in his discontent; for the beginning of strife both with God and man is as the letting forth of waters , the breach grows wider and wider, and, when passion gets head, bad is made worse; it should therefore be silenced and suppressed at first. We have here, I. Jonah’s sullen expectation of the fate of Nineveh. We may suppose that the Ninevites, giving credit to the message he b…
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