16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

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He that is full, abhorreth a honeycomb; but unto him that is hungry, every sour thing is sweet.

The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.

And they shall eat the flesh the same night, roast with fire, and with unleavened bread, and with sour herbs they shall eat it.

the fourteenth day of the second month at even, and eat it with sweet bread and sour herbs,

They gave me gall to eat, and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.

there shall no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it;

Ye turn the law to wormwood, and cast down righteousness into the ground.

Who can run with horses, or plow with oxen upon the hard rocks of stone? For why? Ye have turned true judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.

they gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall. And when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

And I went unto the angel, and said to him, "Give me the little book," and he said unto me, "Take it, and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth as sweet as honey."

And I took the little book out of his hand, and ate it up, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey, and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

Lest there be among you man or woman, kindred or tribe, that turneth away in his heart this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations: and lest there be among you some root that beareth gall and wormwood,

Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them gall to drink.

Therefore thus sayeth the 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 is the sickness of hypocrisy come into all the land."

He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink.

{Zayin} O remember yet my misery and my trouble; the wormwood and the gall.

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