Wormwood (Bible)

thumb|The star Wormwood falls towards the earth (1909 Old Believer illustration) Wormwood (Hebrew: la'anah; Ancient Greek: ἀψίνθιον (apsinthion) αψινθος (apsinthos) is a prophesied star or angel which appears in the Book of Revelation. Quotes about Old Testament Lest 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; Book of Deuteronomy 29:18 KJV. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Book of Proverbs 5:4 KJV. Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. Book of Jeremiah 8:15 NKJV. Therefore thus says 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 Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’" Book of Jeremiah 23:15 NKJV. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. [...] Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Book of Lamentations 3:15;19 KJV. Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, Book of Amos 5:7 KJV. Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,... Book of Amos 6:12 NKJV. New Testament 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. Book of Revelation 8:11 KJV. See also Book of Revelation Prophecy External links Category:Angels