16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food
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One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.
They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--
they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.
So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey."
And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.
Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land."
Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
