'Wormwood' in the Bible
in the end she’s as bitter as wormwoodand as sharp as a double-edged sword.
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets:I am about to feed them wormwoodand give them poisoned water to drink,for from the prophets of Jerusalemungodliness has spread throughout the land.
He filled me with bitterness,satiated me with wormwood.
ז ZayinRemember my affliction and my homelessness,the wormwood and the poison.
Those who turn justice into wormwoodthrow righteousness to the ground.
Do horses gallop on the cliffs;does anyone plow there with oxen?Yet you have turned justice into poisonand the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
The name of the star is Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood. So, many of the people died from the waters, because they had been made bitter.