6 Bible Verses about Bitter Herbs

Most Relevant Verses

Proverbs 5:3-4

For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil: And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword.

Psalm 69:19-21

Thou knewest my reproach and my shame, and my disgrace: all mine adversaries are before thee. Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.

Lamentations 3:13-15

He brought the sons of his quiver into my reins. I was a derision to all my people; their song all the day. He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it

Numbers 9:11

In the second month, in the fourteenth day, between the evenings they shall do it, upon unleavened and bitter herbs they shall eat it

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Bitter herbs » Eaten symbolically with the passover meal

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire and unleavened; upon bitter herbs shall they eat it

Numbers 9:11

In the second month, in the fourteenth day, between the evenings they shall do it, upon unleavened and bitter herbs they shall eat it

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