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.

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Wormwood

Deuteronomy 29:18
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.
Ruth 1:20
She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Proverbs 5:4
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
Jeremiah 9:15
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.
Jeremiah 23:15
“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.’”
Lamentations 3:5
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
Amos 5:7
For those who turn justice into wormwood
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”
Amos 6:12
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,
Hebrews 12:15
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

Exodus 15:23
When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

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Isaiah 42:15
“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.

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