16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

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Proverbs 27:7

A satiated soul treadeth down a honeycomb, And to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Job 20:14

His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps is in his heart.

Exodus 12:8

'And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;

Numbers 9:11

in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it;

Psalm 69:21

And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.

Isaiah 24:9

With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

Amos 5:7

Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough it with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

Revelation 10:9

and I went away unto the messenger, saying to him, 'Give me the little scroll;' and he saith to me, 'Take, and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet -- as honey.'

Revelation 10:10

And I took the little scroll out of the hand of the messenger, and did eat it up, and it was in my mouth as honey -- sweet, and when I did eat it -- my belly was made bitter;

Deuteronomy 29:18

lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood:

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them -- this people -- to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the prophets: Lo, I am causing them to eat wormwood, And have caused them to drink water of gall, For, from prophets of Jerusalem Hath profanity gone forth to all the land.

Lamentations 3:15

He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!

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