'Bitterness' in the Bible

The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

"'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly.

Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites!" Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"

"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.

and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."

"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;