16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food
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An {appetite} that is sated spurns honey, but [to] an {appetite} that is ravenous, all bitterness [is] sweet.
And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and [with] unleavened bread on {bitter herbs}.
On the second month on the fourteenth day {at twilight} they will observe it; they will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter plants.
They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
[Ah,] you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!
Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and [the] fruit of righteousness into wormwood!
they gave him wine mixed with gall to drink, and [when he] tasted [it] he did not want to drink [it].
And I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll, and he said to me, "Take and eat it up, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey."
And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it up, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
so that {there is not} among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe {whose heart} turns {today} from [being] with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood.
Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I [am] feeding this people wormwood, and providing drink for them, water of poison,
{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets, "Look, I [am] going to let them eat wormwood and I will give them water of poison to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem went out ungodliness to all the land."
He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me [with] wormwood.
Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood and venom!
Bible Theasaurus
- Bitter (218 instances)
