Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

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.

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

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.