You had pity on the gourd - In the feeling of our common mortality, the soul cannot but yearn over decay. Even a drooping flower is sad to l…

Which came up. —The original is one of those forceful idioms impossible to reproduce: which son of a night was, and son of a n…

Then the LORD said, You have had pity on the gourd, for which you have not labored, nor made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in…

Here God explains the design he had in suddenly raising up the gourd, and then in causing it to perish or wither through the gnawing of a worm; it …

Then said the Lord, you have had pity on the gourd
Or, "have spared it" ^F3; that is, would have spared it…

Jonah went out of the city, yet remained nearby, as if he expected and desired its overthrow. Those who have fretful, uneasy spirits often create t…