16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.

In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;

They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

They gave him wine mixed with bitter drink: and after tasting it, he took no more.

And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me: Put it in your mouth; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.

And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and did as he said; and it was sweet as honey in my mouth: and when I had taken it, my stomach was made bitter.

So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.