Revelation 8:11

WEB

¹¹The name of the star is “Wormwood.” One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

KJV

¹¹And 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.

BSB

¹¹The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil,^[+] and many people died from the bitter waters.

FBV

¹¹The name of the star is Wormwood, and one third of the water turned bitter,^[+] and many people died from drinking the water because it had become poisonous.

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Extra References

Jeremiah 23:15

¹⁵Therefore the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

Jeremiah 9:15

¹⁵Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Deuteronomy 29:18

¹⁸lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

Proverbs 5:4

⁴but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Amos 5:7

⁷You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Lamentations 3:19

¹⁹Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

Amos 6:12

¹²Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

Revelation 8:7

⁷The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up,^[+] and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

Ruth 1:20

²⁰She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.^[+] Call me Mara,^[+] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Exodus 15:23

²³When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.