so that there not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there not be among you a root bearing venom or bitterness;

And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a cleaver;

Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and make them drink bitter water.

Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink bitter water; for godlessness has gone forth from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.

He has built against me and has encircled me with bitterness and travail.

Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

you who turn justice into wormwood, and lay righteousness to rest on the earth.

Shall horses run on the rock? Or will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

watching carefully that no one fall short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and through this many become defiled;

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.