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So Yahweh God appointed a [a]plant, and it came up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his miserable evil. And Jonah was [b]extremely glad about the plant. But God appointed a worm at the [c]breaking of dawn the next day, and it struck the plant, and [d]it (A)dried up. Then it happened that as the sun rose up, God appointed a scorching (B)east wind, and the (C)sun struck down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and asked with all his soul to die and said, “(D)Death is better to me than life.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 4:6 Probably a castor oil plant, so through v 10
  2. Jonah 4:6 Lit greatly
  3. Jonah 4:7 Lit rising
  4. Jonah 4:7 The plant