16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is the gall of asps within him.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

In the second month on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

They shall not drink wine with a song. Strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall. And having tasted it, he would not drink.

And I went to the agent, telling him to give me the little book. And he says to me, Take and eat it. And it will make thy belly bitter, but it will be sweet as honey in thy mouth.

And I took the book out of the agent's hand, and ate it. And it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and when I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter.

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,

Therefore thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Therefore thus says 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 ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.

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

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.