When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
Cross References
Joel 1:12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple--all the trees of the orchard--are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
Jonah 4:6So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah's head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
Treasury of Scripture
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
prepared.
Job 1:21
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.
Psalm 30:6,7
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved…
Psalm 102:10
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
it withered.
Psalm 90:5,6
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up…
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: …
Joel 1:12
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.