16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

The one whose appetite is satisfied loathes honey, but to the hungry mouth every bitter thing is sweet.

his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.

and offered Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink. But after tasting it, he would not drink it.

So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take the scroll and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth."

So I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.

Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.

So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say. 'I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.

So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: 'I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.'"

He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

(Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.