48 Bible Verses about Bitterness

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Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Job 21:25

While another dies with a bitter soul,
Never even tasting anything good.

Revelation 8:11

The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Ezekiel 3:14

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

Proverbs 27:7

A sated man loathes honey,
But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.

James 3:11

Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?

Job 10:1

“I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Proverbs 5:4

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Psalm 73:21

When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within,

Isaiah 24:9

They do not drink wine with song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Isaiah 38:17

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Matthew 20:22

But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They *said to Him, “We are able.”

Exodus 15:23

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Psalm 71:20

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Romans 3:14

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;

Job 27:2

“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul,

Amos 5:7

For those who turn justice into wormwood
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”

Amos 8:10

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loins
And baldness on every head.
And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

Deuteronomy 32:32

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
Their clusters, bitter.

2 Kings 2:19

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold now, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”

Revelation 10:9

So I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. And he *said to me, “Take it and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

1 Samuel 15:32

Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag, the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

Numbers 5:24

Then he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, so that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness.

Numbers 5:23

‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.

Habakkuk 1:6

“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
That fierce and impetuous people
Who march throughout the earth
To seize dwelling places which are not theirs.

Job 9:18

“He will not allow me to get my breath,
But saturates me with bitterness.

Genesis 49:23

“The archers bitterly attacked him,
And shot at him and harassed him;

Isaiah 38:15

“What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Jeremiah 23:15

“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets,
‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood
And make them drink poisonous water,
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”

Genesis 27:34

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”

Ezekiel 27:31

“Also they will make themselves bald for you
And gird themselves with sackcloth;
And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul
With bitter mourning.

Numbers 5:27

When he has made her drink the water, then it shall come about, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will waste away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

Ezekiel 21:6

As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight.

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them.

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Ruth 1:19-21

So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And when they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was stirred because of them, and the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

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