16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food
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A satiated soul treadeth down a honeycomb, And to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
'And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;
in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it;
With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.
Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
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.
they gave him to drink vinegar mixed with gall, and having tasted, he would not drink.
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.'
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;
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:
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,
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.
He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood.
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
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