Wormwood:
Four kinds of wormwood are found in Palestine- Artemisia nilotica, A. Judaica, A. fructicosa and A. cinerea. The word occurs frequently in the Bible, and generally in a metaphorical sense. In Jeremiah 9:15; 23:15; Lamentations 3:15; 3:19, wormwood is symbolical of bitter calamity and sorrow; unrighteous judges are said to "turn judgment to wormwood." (Amos 5:7). The Orientals typified sorrows, cruelties and calamities of any kind by plants of a poisonous or bitter nature.
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