16 Bible Verses about Bitter Food
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The full soul lotheth a honey-comb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire; and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
The fourteenth day of the second month at evening, they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
They gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall: and when he had tasted of it, he would not drink.
And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take it, and eat it, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it my belly was bitter.
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Therefore thus saith 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 profaneness gone forth into all the land.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
