When the morning rose - , i. e., in the earliest dawn, before the actual sunrise. For one day Jonah enjoyed the refreshment of the palm-christ. In early dawn, it still promised the shadow; just ere it was most needed, at God’s command, it withered.
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Jonah 4:7
7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.