Wormwood

 / ˈwɜrmˌwʊd /     [  **wurm** -w// oo //d ]  **//–noun//**
 * worm⋅wood **
 * 1. || any composite herb or low shrub of the genus //Artemisia.// ||
 * 2. || a bitter, aromatic plant, //A. absinthium,// of the Old World, used as a vermifuge and a tonic, and as an ingredient in absinthe. ||
 * 3. || something bitter, grievous, or extremely unpleasant. ||

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 * Jeremiah 9:15 || "Therefore, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.'" || "Therefore 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." ||
 * Lamentations 5:15, 19 || "He has filled me with bitter herbs and sated me with gall. I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall." || "He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with **wormwood**. Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the **wormwood** and the gall." ||
 * Revelations 8:10-11 || "The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky 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, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter." || "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; 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." ||