Revelation 8:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died of the water, because it was made bitter.

Cross References

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.

Proverbs 5:4

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

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth 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 wormwood, and give them poisonous water to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

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

Lamentations 3:5

he has beseiged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

Amos 5:7

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

Amos 6:12

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

Zechariah 13:8

In the whole land, says 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 on 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

Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

Hebrews 12:15

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

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 bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth;

Revelation 8:7

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, which fell on the earth; and a third of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Revelation 9:15

So the four angels were released, who had been held ready for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, 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 sulphur issuing from their mouths.

Ruth 1:20

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