Revelation 8:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Wormwood

Many

Exodus 15:23

General references

Isaiah 42:15

Bible References

Wormwood

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 and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for

the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,

Sharp as a two-edged sword.

therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets,
‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood
And make them drink poisonous water,
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”

He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

For those who turn justice into wormwood
And cast righteousness down 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,

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

Many

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

General references

“I will lay waste the mountains and hills
And wither all their vegetation;
I will make the rivers into coastlands
And dry up the ponds.