Jonah 4:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.

Jonah Is Reproved

⁶ And the Lord God appointed a plant,^[a] and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.^{[b] 7} But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant,^[c] so that it withered.