'Bitterness' in the Bible

and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

and Samuel saith, 'Bring ye nigh unto me Agag king of Amalek,' and Agag cometh unto him daintily, and Agag saith, 'Surely the bitterness of death hath turned aside.'

and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, 'For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?'

Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

-- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes,

And they have made for thee baldness, And they have girded on sackcloth, And they have wept for thee, In bitterness of soul -- a bitter mourning.

And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head -- baldness, And made it as a mourning of an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.

for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;