16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

The full soul despises a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

yet his food in his belly shall be turned; the gall of asps is within him.

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

They shall keep it the fourteenth day of the second month at evening, eating it with unleavened cakes and bitter herbs.

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

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

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

Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;

they gave Him vinegar mixed with gall to drink. And when He had tasted, He would not drink.

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

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

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God, to go serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,

Therefore so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water.

So Jehovah of Hosts says this concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.

He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.

Remember my affliction and my wandering, as wormwood and bitterness.