'Wormwood' in the Bible
so that {there is not} among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe {whose heart} turns {today} from [being] with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood.
But her end is bitter as the wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I [am] feeding this people wormwood, and providing drink for them, water of poison,
{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets, "Look, I [am] going to let them eat wormwood and I will give them water of poison to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem went out ungodliness to all the land."
He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me [with] wormwood.
Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood and venom!
[Ah,] you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!
Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and [the] fruit of righteousness into wormwood!
And the name of the star was called Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.