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  • For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Proverbs 5:3^5.

  • And Isaid,My strengthand my hope isperished fromthe L: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDLamentations 3:18^19.

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