Deuteronomy 29:18
18Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you aa root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,Ruth 1:20
20She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; ▼▼ Naomi means pleasant
call me cMara, ▼▼ Mara means bitter
for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. Proverbs 5:4
4but in the end she is ebitter as fwormwood,gsharp as ha two-edged sword.
Jeremiah 9:15
15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: iBehold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them jpoisonous water to drink.Jeremiah 23:15
15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:k“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
land give them mpoisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
Lamentations 3:5
5 nhe has besieged and enveloped mewith obitterness and tribulation;
Lamentations 3:19
19 pRemember my affliction and my wanderings,qthe wormwood and rthe gall!
Amos 5:7
7O syou who turn justice to wormwood ▼▼Or to bitter fruit
and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Amos 6:12
12Do horses run on rocks?Does one plow there ▼
▼Or the sea
with oxen?vBut you have turned justice into wpoison
xand the fruit of righteousness into wormwood ▼
▼Or into bitter fruit
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