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Jonah 4:5

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  1. Jonah 4:3

    Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

  2. Jonah 4:4

    Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?

  3. Jonah 4:6

    And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

  4. Jonah 4:7

    But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.