6 Bible Verses about Bitter Herbs
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For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
Truly you know my reproach, shame, and disgrace. All my enemies are known to you. Insults broke my heart. I despaired and looked for sympathy; but there was none, for comforters, but I found none. They put poison in my food, in my thirst they forced me to drink vinegar.
He caused his war arrows to pierce my vital organs. I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunts throughout the day. He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink wormwood.
That very night they're to eat the meat, roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
On the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight, they are to eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
I will pour out on the house of David and on the residents of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and of supplications, and they will look to me the one whom they pierced.'"
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Bitter herbs » Eaten symbolically with the passover meal
That very night they're to eat the meat, roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
On the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight, they are to eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
