Revelation 8:11

English Standard Version 2016

The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.

Cross References

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.

Deuteronomy 29:18

Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Amos 5:7

O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!

Proverbs 5:4

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

Revelation 8:7

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

Lamentations 3:5

he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Exodus 15:23

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Zechariah 13:8

In the whole land, declares the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Revelation 9:15

So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind.

Revelation 9:18

By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.