Revelation 8:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 The star was called “Wormwood,”[a] and a third of all the water turned to wormwood. Many people died from this water, because it was made bitter.(A)
12 When the fourth angel blew his trumpet, a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them became dark. The day lost its light for a third of the time, as did the night.(B)
13 Then I looked again and heard an eagle flying high overhead cry out in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe[b] to the inhabitants of the earth from the rest of the trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to blow!”
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- 8:11 Wormwood: an extremely bitter and malignant plant symbolizing the punishment God inflicts on the ungodly; cf. Jer 9:12–14; 23:15.
- 8:13 Woe! Woe! Woe: each of the three woes pronounced by the angel represents a separate disaster; cf. Rev 9:12; 11:14. The final woe, released by the seventh trumpet blast, includes the plagues of Rev 16.
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