48 Bible Verses about Bitterness

Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

And look to, that no man be destitute of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness spring up and trouble; and thereby many be defiled:

An indiscreet son is a grief unto his father; and a heaviness unto his mother that bare him.

The heart of him that hath understanding will neither despair for any sorrow; nor be too presumptuous for any sudden joy.

Woe be unto them that call evil good, and good evil: which make darkness light, and light darkness, that make sour sweet, and sweet sour.

Another dieth in sorrow and heaviness, and never had good days.

and the name of the star is called wormwood. And the third part was turned to wormwood. And many men died of the waters because they were made bitter.

And I found, that a woman is bitterer than death: for she is a very angle, her heart is a net, and her hands are chains. Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be taken with her.

Now when the spirit took me up, and carried me away, I went with a heavy and sorrowful mind, but the hand of the LORD comforted me right soon.

He that is full, abhorreth a honeycomb; but unto him that is hungry, every sour thing is sweet.

Doth a fountain send forth at one place sweet water, and bitter also?

It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

Give strong drink unto such as are condemned to death, and wine unto those that mourn:

But at the last she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two edged sword.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.

For I perceive that thou art full of bitter gall, and wrapped in iniquity."

Thus my heart was grieved, and it went even through my veins.

there shall no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it;

But she said unto them, "Call me not Naomi: call me Mara, for the Almighty hath made me very bitter.

And she was troubled in her spirits, and prayed unto the LORD and wept sore,

Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter unto them.

Behold, bitter as gall was my pensiveness: so sore longed I for health. And it was thy pleasure to deliver me from the filthy pit: for thou it is, O Lord, that hath cast all my sins behind thy back.

Jesus answered, and said, "Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? And to be baptised with the baptism, that I shall be baptised with?" They answered to him, "That we are."

At the last they came to Marah: but they could not drink of the waters for bitterness, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of the place was called Marah.

O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me! And yet didst thou turn and refresh me; yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.

"Whose mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."

"As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

Ye turn the law to wormwood, and cast down righteousness into the ground.

Your high feasts will I turn to sorrow, and your songs to mourning: I will bring sackcloth upon all backs, and baldness on every head. Yea, such a mourning will I send them, as is made upon an only begotten son, and they shall have a miserable end.

But their vines are of the vines of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters be bitter.

Then the men of Jericho said to Elisha, "Behold, the city standeth pleasantly as my lord seeth, but the water is nought and the ground barren."

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

Lest there be among you man or woman, kindred or tribe, that turneth away in his heart this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations: and lest there be among you some root that beareth gall and wormwood,

Then said Samuel, "Bring ye hither to me, Agag the king of the Amalekites." And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, "Truly the bitterness of death cometh on."

And when the cursing water is in her that it is bitter,

"'And the priest shall write this curse in a bill and wash it out in the bitter water.

For lo, I will raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and swift people: which shall go as wide as the land is, to take possession of dwelling places that be not their own.

He will not let my spirit be in rest, but filleth me with bitterness.

The shooters have envied him and chide with him and hated him,

What shall I say? The Lord hath made a promise to me. Yea, and he himself hath performed it. I shall therefore, as long as I live, remember bitterness of my life.

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts concerning the prophets, "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem is the sickness of hypocrisy come into all the land."

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out greatly and bitterly above measure, and said unto his father, "Bless me also, my father!"

They shall shave themselves, and put sackcloth upon them for thy sake. They shall mourn for thee with heartful sorrow

And when he hath made her drink the water, if she be defiled and have trespassed against her husband, then shall the cursing water go into her and be so bitter, that her womb shall burst and her thigh shall rot, and she shall be a curse among her people.

Mourn therefore, O thou son of man, that thy loins crack withal; yea mourn bitterly for them.

A merry heart is the life of the body; but rancor consumeth away the bones.

and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.