'Wormwood' in the Bible
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.
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 wormwoodAnd make them drink poisonous water,For from the prophets of JerusalemPollution has gone forth into all the land.’”
He has filled me with bitterness,He has made me drunk with wormwood.
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
For those who turn justice into wormwoodAnd cast righteousness down to the earth.”
Do horses run on rocks?Or does one plow them with oxen?Yet you have turned justice into poisonAnd the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.