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15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them (B)poisonous water to drink.

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15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food(A) and drink poisoned water.(B)

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15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
(A)“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
    (B)and give them (C)poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

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15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets:

“I will make them eat bitter food
    and drink poisoned water,(A)
because from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness(B) has spread throughout the land.”

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15 (A)He has filled me with bitterness;
    he has sated me with (B)wormwood.

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15 He has filled me with bitter herbs
    and given me gall to drink.(A)

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19 (A)Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
    (B)the wormwood and (C)the gall!

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19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
    the bitterness(A) and the gall.(B)

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12 Do horses run on rocks?
    Does one plough there[a] with oxen?
(A)But you have turned justice into (B)poison
    (C)and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood[b]

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  1. Amos 6:12 Or the sea
  2. Amos 6:12 Or into bitter fruit

12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea[a] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(A)
    and the fruit of righteousness(B) into bitterness(C)

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  1. Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there

11 The name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third of the waters (A)became wormwood, and many people died from the water, (B)because it had been made bitter.

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  1. Revelation 8:11 Wormwood is the name of a plant and of the bitter-tasting extract derived from it

11 the name of the star is Wormwood.[a] A third(A) of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.(B)

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  1. Revelation 8:11 Wormwood is a bitter substance.