gourd 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}. gourd 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. gourd But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the {gourd} that it withered. gourd And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the {gourd}? And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death. gourd Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the {gourd}, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: ~~~~~~