16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

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Proverbs 27:7

The full soul will tread down the honey droppings, and to the hungry soul all bitter is sweet

Job 20:14

His bread in his bowels was turned, the gall of asps in his midst

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it

Numbers 9:11

In the second month, in the fourteenth day, between the evenings they shall do it, upon unleavened and bitter herbs they shall eat it

Psalm 69:21

And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 24:9

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those drinking it

Amos 5:7

Turning judgment to wormwood and they put down justice in the earth.

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? will he plough with oxen? for ye turned judgment to poison and the fruit of justice to wormwood.

Matthew 27:34

They gave him vinegar to drink. (mingled with bile: and having tasted, he would not drink.

Revelation 10:9

And I came forth to the angel, saying to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take, and eat it up; and it shall render thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth shall it be sweet as honey.

Revelation 10:10

And I took the small book from the angel's hand, and I was eating it; and in my mouth was as honey, sweet: and when I ate it, my belly was bitter.

Deuteronomy 29:18

Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;

Jeremiah 9:15

For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel: Behold me causing this people to eat wormwood, and I gave them to drink water of poison.

Jeremiah 23:15

For this, thus said Jehovah of armies concerning the prophets, Behold me feeding them with wormwood, and I caused to drink the water of poison: for from the prophets of Jerusalem went forth profaneness to all the earth.

Lamentations 3:15

He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink

Lamentations 3:19

Remembering my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the poison.

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