Jonah 4:7
But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.
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- Joel 1:12 : 12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
- Job 1:21 : 21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
- Ps 30:6-7 : 6 When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved. 7 Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.
- Ps 90:5-6 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
- Ps 102:10 : 10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
- Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. 8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
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4And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?
5Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.
6And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.
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8Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
9And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.
10And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;
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1But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.
2And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.
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1And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,
2Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.
3And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.
4And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.
5Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.
6And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.
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6And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead.
7And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit.
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6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
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9I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
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2And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
3The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
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9Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?
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16Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
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12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.
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14So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.
15So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.
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1And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.
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6And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.
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9Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
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8For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.
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