Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before Him.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth [into] all the land.

Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Take the cup of this unmixed wine from My hand, and you shall cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send you.

You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of astonishment.

They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

For [there is] a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and He has turned [it] from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink [them].

You will feed us with the bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.

And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

[This translation omits this verse.]

VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, He has drenched me with gall.

ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And a third of the waters turned into wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.