48 Bible Verses about Bitterness

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.

The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.

And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me.

One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."

When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,

No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

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

She was deeply distressed and prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.

"Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."

"As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;

Now the men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful."

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

Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

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

And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.

"Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.

For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.

he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely,

What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land."

As soon as 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!"

they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

"As for you, son of man, groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan before their eyes.

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.