Revelation 8:11

New Living Translation

The name of the star was Bitterness. It made one-third of the water bitter, and many people died from drinking the bitter water.

Cross References

Exodus 15:23

When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah (which means “bitter”).

Proverbs 5:4

But in the end she is as bitter as poison, as dangerous as a double-edged sword.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink. For it is because of Jerusalem’s prophets that wickedness has filled this land.”

Jeremiah 9:15

So now, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Look! I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress.

Amos 5:7

You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the oppressed. You treat the righteous like dirt.

Amos 6:12

Can horses gallop over boulders? Can oxen be used to plow them? But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.

Zechariah 13:8

Two-thirds of the people in the land will be cut off and die,” says the Lord. “But one-third will be left in the land.

Zechariah 13:9

I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure. I will refine them like silver and purify them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘These are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’”

Deuteronomy 29:18

I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.

Hebrews 12:15

Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky, and he threw them to the earth. He stood in front of the woman as she was about to give birth, ready to devour her baby as soon as it was born.

Revelation 8:7

The first angel blew his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were thrown down on the earth. One-third of the earth was set on fire, one-third of the trees were burned, and all the green grass was burned.

Revelation 9:15

Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one-third of all the people on earth.

Revelation 9:18

One-third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues—by the fire and smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of the horses.

Ruth 1:20

“Don’t call me Naomi,” she responded. “Instead, call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me.