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Wormwood

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: W By: James P. Boyd

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A bitter plant found in Palestine, and often mentioned in Scripture in connection with gall to denote what is offensive and nauseous

(Deut. 29:18¹⁸Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; (Deuteronomy 29:18); Prov. 5:4⁴But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. (Proverbs 5:4); Jer. 9:15; 23:15¹⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. (Jeremiah 9:15)
¹⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. (Jeremiah 23:15); Lam. 3:15,19¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. (Lamentations 3:15)
¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (Lamentations 3:19); Amos 5:7⁷Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, (Amos 5:7)).

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