48 Bible Verses about Bitterness

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

And the name of the star is Wormwood: and a third part of the waters became bitter; and a number of men came to their end because of the waters, for they were made bitter.

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?

My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.

My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.

And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.

Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.

See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?

And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:

Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead.

And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me: Put it in your mouth; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.

So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.

And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.

And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;

For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.

He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:

What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

And hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Give a blessing to me, even to me, O my father!

And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.

A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.