16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

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Proverbs 27:7

The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Job 20:14

his food shall be changed in his bowels, it shall be the gall of asps within him.

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Numbers 9:11

The fourteenth day of the second month, between the two evenings they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Psalm 69:21

They also gave me gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 24:9

They shall not drink wine with a song; the drink shall be bitter to them that would drink it.

Amos 5:7

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off doing righteousness in the earth,

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rocks? will one plow there with oxen? why have ye turned judgment into hemlock, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood?

Matthew 27:34

they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall; and when he had tasted of it, he would not drink.

Revelation 10:9

And I went unto the angel and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

Revelation 10:10

And I took the little book from the angel's hand and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

Deuteronomy 29:18

Peradventure there shall be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those Gentiles; peradventure there shall be among you a root that bears poison and wormwood;

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore, thus hath the LORD of the hosts said against those prophets: Behold, I will cause them to eat wormwood and make them drink the waters of gall, for from the prophets of Jerusalem is hypocrisy gone forth upon all the land.

Lamentations 3:15

He He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:19

Zain Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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