^{7 Ref} But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

^{8 Ref} And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.