16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food

The full person dislikes the honeycomb, but to the hungry every bitter thing is sweet.

yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.

That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs (greens) and unleavened bread made without yeast.

You will celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at dusk. Eat the Passover animal along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

They no longer drink wine with a song. The beverage is bitter to its drinkers.

You who turn justice to wormwood (a curse), and cast righteousness down to the earth

Do horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with cattle? You have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness)!

They gave him vinegar (bitter wine) to drink mixed with poison (a drug) (gall). When he tasted it he would not drink. (Psalm 69:21)

I went to the angel, and said to him: Give me the little book. He said to me: Take it, and eat it up! It will be sweet as honey in your mouth, but it will make your belly bitter.

So I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it. It was in my mouth sweet as honey and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.

Therefore Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: 'Behold! I will feed this people with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.'

This is what Jehovah of Hosts says about the prophets: I will give them wormwood to eat and poison to drink. The prophets of Jerusalem have spread godlessness throughout the land.

He has made my life nothing but pain. He gives me bitterness in full measure.

Remember my trouble and my wandering, the bitterroot and the poison.