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

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

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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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Footnotes

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

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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Footnotes

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