Revelation 8:11
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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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Jeremiah 23:15
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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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- Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
Jeremiah 9:15
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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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- Jeremiah 9:15 Bitter or poisonous water
Deuteronomy 29:18
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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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Amos 6:12
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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,
Amos 5:7
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7 You who (A)turn justice to wormwood,
And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”
Lamentations 3:19
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- Lamentations 3:19 bitterness
Proverbs 5:4
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4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
Revelation 8:7
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First Trumpet: Vegetation Struck
7 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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- Revelation 8:7 NU, M add and a third of the earth was burned up
Hebrews 12:15
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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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Lamentations 3:5
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5 He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and [a]woe.
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- Lamentations 3:5 hardship or weariness
Ruth 1:20
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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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Exodus 15:23
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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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- Exodus 15:23 Lit. Bitter
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