48 Bible Verses about Bitterness

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you , and thereby the many be defiled;

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

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

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.

The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul:

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

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.

For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto Jehovah, and wept sore.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, we pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is bad, and the land miscarrieth.

And I went unto the angel, saying unto him that he should give me the little book. And he saith unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey.

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

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

and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth the curse; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness:

For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.

He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecute him:

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.

A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; But envy is the rottenness of the bones.

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.