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A fiery star falls toward rivers as two people recoil from tainted water.
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Revelation 8:10-11

Third trumpet Wormwood and bitter waters

Silence and the first four trumpets · Revelation 8

Story guide: Wormwood makes waters bitter. The observers and landscape are an illustration of the warning, not named people supplied by the text.

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10And the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of the waters.

11And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And a third of the waters became wormwood, and many of the people died from the waters, because they had been made bitter.

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