11 (A)The name of the star is Wormwood. (B)A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.

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11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third(A) of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.(B)

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  1. Revelation 8:11 Wormwood is a bitter substance.

15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:

‘Behold, I will feed them with (A)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
[a]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”

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  1. Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution

15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets:

“I will make them eat bitter food
    and drink poisoned water,(A)
because from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness(B) has spread throughout the land.”

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15 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will (A)feed them, this people, (B)with wormwood, and give them [a]water of gall to drink.

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  1. Jeremiah 9:15 Bitter or poisonous water

15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food(A) and drink poisoned water.(B)

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18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, (A)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, (B)and that there may not be among you a root bearing (C)bitterness or wormwood;

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18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns(A) away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.(B)

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12 Do horses run on rocks?
Does one plow there with oxen?
Yet (A)you have turned justice into gall,
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

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12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea[a] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(A)
    and the fruit of righteousness(B) into bitterness(C)

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  1. Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there

You who (A)turn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

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There are those who turn justice into bitterness(A)
    and cast righteousness(B) to the ground.(C)

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19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
(A)The wormwood and the [a]gall.

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  1. Lamentations 3:19 bitterness

19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
    the bitterness(A) and the gall.(B)

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But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.

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but in the end she is bitter as gall,(A)
    sharp as a double-edged sword.

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First Trumpet: Vegetation Struck

The first angel sounded: (A)And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown (B)to the [a]earth. And a third (C)of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

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  1. Revelation 8:7 NU, M add and a third of the earth was burned up

The first angel(A) sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire(B) mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third(C) of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.(D)

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15 looking carefully lest anyone (A)fall short of the grace of God; lest any (B)root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

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15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God(A) and that no bitter root(B) grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

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He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and [a]woe.

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  1. Lamentations 3:5 hardship or weariness

He has besieged me and surrounded me
    with bitterness(A) and hardship.(B)

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20 But she said to them, “Do not call me [a]Naomi; call me [b]Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

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  1. Ruth 1:20 Lit. Pleasant
  2. Ruth 1:20 Lit. Bitter

20 “Don’t call me Naomi,[a]” she told them. “Call me Mara,[b] because the Almighty[c](A) has made my life very bitter.(B)

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  1. Ruth 1:20 Naomi means pleasant.
  2. Ruth 1:20 Mara means bitter.
  3. Ruth 1:20 Hebrew Shaddai; also in verse 21

23 Now when they came to (A)Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called [a]Marah.

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  1. Exodus 15:23 Lit. Bitter

23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.[a](A))

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  1. Exodus 15:23 Marah means bitter.