16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food
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A sated man loathes honey,
But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.
They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
They also gave me gall for my food
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
They do not drink wine with song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
For those who turn justice into wormwood
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”
Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
they gave Him wine to drink mixed with gall; and after tasting it, He was unwilling to drink.
So I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. And he *said to me, “Take it and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”
I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and in my mouth it was sweet as honey; and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets,
‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood
And make them drink poisonous water,
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”
He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
