Wormwood

How Nave’s arranged it

• A bitter plantDeuteronomy 29:18
• FIGURATIVEDeuteronomy 29:18Proverbs 5:4Jeremiah 9:15Jeremiah 23:15Lamentations 3:19
• SYMBOLICALRevelation 8:11

The passages, in Bible order (6)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 6 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Deuteronomy 29:18

   Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 29:182 voices

   “A root that beareth gall and wormwood - That is, as the apostle expresses it, Heb 3:12, An evil heart of unbelief departing from the living God; for to this place he evidently refers. It may also signify false doctrines, or idolatrous persons among themselves.

   “Lest there should be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe,....

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2. Proverbs 5:4

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

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 5:42 voices

   “But her end is bitter as wormwood,....

   “Bitter as wormwood - כלענה Kelanah, like the detestable herb wormwood, or something analogous to it: something as excessive in its bitterness, as honey is in its sweetness.

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3. Jeremiah 9:15

   Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 9:152 voices

   “(Verses 15, 16.) Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood (or distress), and give them water of gall to drink. I will scatter them among the nations, which neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until they are consumed.

   “I will feed them - with wormwood - They shall have the deepest sorrow and heaviest affliction. They shall have poison instead of meat and drink.

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4. Jeremiah 23:15

   Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 23:152 voices

   “(Verse 15.) Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts to the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood (or sorrow, and according to Symmachus, bitterness) and give them gall to drink (or bitter water), because from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has gone out into all the land. Let us use this testimony against those who disseminate letters full of lies, deceit, and perjury throughout the world, so that they may defile the ears of those who hear them and harm the reputation of the innocent.

   “Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets,....

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5. Lamentations 3:19

   Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

   ›Commentary on Lamentations 3:192 voices

   “Here is indicated arguments to wipe out despair. First, by divine mercy, second, by divine justice. Third, by divine power. To the exclusion of despair by divine mercy, two further ideas are exposed. First, is shown mercy regarding a collection of benefits, second regarding a …

   “Remembering mine affliction and my misery,....

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6. Revelation 8:11

   The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters.

   ›Commentary on Revelation 8:112 voices

   “The rivers and fountains of waters signify the teachers of the divine Scriptures who instruct others but turn themselves away from the way of truth. Indeed, the name Wormwood indicates either the bitterness or the sweetness of sins, which give a present sweetness to those …

   “And the name of the star is called Wormwood,....

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