Revelation 8:10-12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
10 When the third angel blew his trumpet, a large star burning like a torch fell from the sky. It fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.(A) 11 The star was called “Wormwood,”[a] and a third of all the water turned to wormwood. Many people died from this water, because it was made bitter.(B)
12 When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them became dark. The day lost its light for a third of the time, as did the night.(C)
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- 8:11 Wormwood: an extremely bitter and malignant plant symbolizing the punishment God inflicts on the ungodly; cf. Jer 9:12–14; 23:15.
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