Revelation 8:11

New American Bible - revised edition

The star was called “Wormwood,” and a third of all the water turned to wormwood. Many people died from this water, because it was made bitter.

Cross References

Exodus 15:23

they arrived at Marah, where they could not drink its water, because it was too bitter. Hence this place was called Marah.

Proverbs 5:4

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

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts against the prophets: Look, I will give them wormwood to eat, and poisoned water to drink; For from Jerusalem’s prophets ungodliness has gone forth into the whole land.

Jeremiah 9:15

I will scatter them among nations whom neither they nor their ancestors have known; I will send the sword to pursue them until I have completely destroyed them.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my wretched homelessness is wormwood and poison;

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged me all around with poverty and hardship;

Amos 5:7

Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,

Amos 6:12

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Zechariah 13:8

In all the land—oracle of the Lord— two thirds of them will be cut off and perish, and one third will be left.

Zechariah 13:9

I will bring the one third through the fire; I will refine them as one refines silver, and I will test them as one tests gold. 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.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

if any such persons, after hearing the words of this curse, should congratulate themselves, saying in their hearts, “I am safe, even though I walk in stubbornness of heart,” thereby sweeping away moist and dry alike,

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,

Revelation 12:4

Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth.

Revelation 8:7

When the first one blew his trumpet, there came hail and fire mixed with blood, which was hurled down to the earth. A third of the land was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all green grass.

Revelation 9:15

So the four angels were released, who were prepared for this hour, day, month, and year to kill a third of the human race.

Revelation 9:18

By these three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that came out of their mouths a third of the human race was killed.

Ruth 1:20

But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi [‘Sweet’]. Call me Mara [‘Bitter’], for the Almighty has made my life very bitter.