"Why are we sitting still?" God's people ask. "Come on, we will run to the fortified cities and die there. The LORD our God has condemned us to die; he has given us poison to drink, because we have sinned against him.

So then, listen to what I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, will do: I will give my people bitter plants to eat and poison to drink.

When I was hungry, they gave me poison; when I was thirsty, they offered me vinegar.

He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.

Bitter suffering is all he has given me for food and drink.

The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.

There they offered Jesus wine mixed with a bitter substance; but after tasting it, he would not drink it.

(The name of the star is "Bitterness.") A third of the water turned bitter, and many people died from drinking the water, because it had turned bitter.