¹⁵ So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

¹⁴ Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.

¹⁵ So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

²¹ They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

⁵ He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

¹⁵ He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

¹⁹ Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

³⁴ They gave him wine mixed with bitter drink: and after tasting it, he took no more.

¹¹ And the name of the star is Wormwood: and a third part of the waters became bitter; and a number of men came to their end because of the waters, for they were made bitter.