Revelation 8:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

And the name of the star is Wormwood: and a third part of the waters became bitter; and a number of men came to their end because of the waters, for they were made bitter.

Cross References

Exodus 15:23

And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.

Proverbs 5:4

But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

Jeremiah 23:15

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

Jeremiah 9:15

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

Lamentations 3:19

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

Lamentations 3:5

He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

Amos 5:7

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

Amos 6:12

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

Zechariah 13:8

And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

Deuteronomy 29:18

So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

Hebrews 12:15

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

Revelation 12:4

And his tail was pulling a third part of the stars of heaven down to the earth, and the dragon took his place before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when the birth had taken place he might put an end to her child.

Revelation 8:7

And at the sounding of the first, a rain of ice and fire, mixed with blood, was sent on the earth: and a third part of the earth, and of the trees, and all green grass was burned up.

Revelation 9:15

And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.

Revelation 9:18

By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.

Ruth 1:20

And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.