The sermon "The Root That Beareth Wormwood" by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, delivered on December 2, 1866, is based on Deuteronomy 29:18, which warns of a "root that beareth gall and wormwood" among the people of Israel. Spurgeon uses this biblical passage to emphasize that sin is a root that produces bitterness and leads to spiritual and eternal ruin.

This is the last chapter of the book the Attributes of God, fittingly finished in the month of the 40th anniversary of narrating books.