so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

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

therefore this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood; and I will give them poisoned water to drink.

Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says concerning the prophets: ‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Ungodliness has spread into all the land.’”

He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.

Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy

Remember my misery and my homelessness, the wormwood and bitterness.

For those who turn justice into wormwood, And throw righteousness to the earth.”

Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

The star is named Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.