Revelation 8:11
9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
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.
12 Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
13 And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
- WEB
- The name of the star is “Wormwood.” One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
- ASV
- and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
- DARBY
- And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood, and many of the men died of the waters because they were made bitter.
- BLB
- And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And a third of the waters became wormwood, and many of the men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
- ÅB
- Og stjernens navn er Malurt, og tredjedelen av vannene ble til malurt, og mange mennesker døde av vannet, fordi det var blitt beskt.
- OTB
- stjernen heter Malurt. En tredjedel av vannene ble bitre, og mange mennesker døde av vannene fordi de var blitt bitre.
- B1930
- Og stjernens navn er Malurt, og tredjedelen av vannene blev til malurt, og mange mennesker døde av vannet, fordi det var blitt beskt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.”
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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,
Read in contextProverbs 5:4
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
Read in contextLamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Read in contextAmos 6:12
“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
Read in contextAmos 5:7
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
Read in contextExodus 15:23
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
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