Revelation 8:11

New International Reader's Version

The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the water turned bitter. Many people died from it.

Cross References

Exodus 15:23

When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink its water. It was bitter. That’s why the place is named Marah.

Proverbs 5:4

But in the end she is like bitter poison. She cuts like a sword that has two edges.

Jeremiah 23:15

So the Lord who rules over all speaks about the prophets. He says, “I will make them eat bitter food. I will make them drink poisoned water. The prophets of Jerusalem have spread their ungodly ways all through the land.”

Jeremiah 9:15

So now the Lord who rules over all speaks. He is the God of Israel. He says, “I will make these people eat bitter food. I will make them drink poisoned water.

Lamentations 3:19

I remember how I suffered and wandered. I remember how bitter my life was.

Lamentations 3:5

He has surrounded me and attacked me. He has made me suffer bitterly. He has made things hard for me.

Amos 5:7

There are people among you who turn what is fair into something bitter. They throw down to the ground what is right.

Amos 6:12

Horses don’t run on rocky ground. People don’t plow the sea with oxen. But you have turned fair treatment into poison. You have turned the fruit of right living into bitterness.

Zechariah 13:8

Here is what will happen in the whole land,” announces the Lord. “Two-thirds of the people will be struck down and die. But one-third will be left.

Zechariah 13:9

I will put this third in the fire. I will make them as pure as silver. I will test them like gold. They will call out to me. And I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people.’ And they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”

Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure there isn’t a man or woman among your families or tribes who turns away from the Lord our God. No one must worship the gods of those nations. Make sure that kind of worship doesn’t spread like bitter poison through your whole community.

Hebrews 12:15

Be sure that no one misses out on God’s grace. See to it that a bitter plant doesn’t grow up. If it does, it will cause trouble. And it will make many people impure.

Revelation 12:4

The dragon’s tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky. It threw the stars down to earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to have a baby. The dragon wanted to eat her child the moment he was born.

Revelation 8:7

The first angel blew his trumpet. Hail and fire mixed with blood were thrown down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up. A third of the trees were burned up. All the green grass was burned up.

Revelation 9:15

The four angels had been ready for this very hour and day and month and year. They were set free to kill a third of all people.

Revelation 9:18

A third of all people were killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of the horses’ mouths.

Ruth 1:20

“Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara. The Mighty One has made my life very bitter.