48 Bible Verses about Bitterness

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God, or lest any root of bitterness springing up disturb you, and by it many are defiled,

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

The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share in 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!

And another dies with bitter soul, and never eats with pleasure.

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

and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands like bands. Whoever pleases 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; but the hand of Jehovah was strong on me.

The full soul despises a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Does a fountain send forth at the same hole the sweet and the bitter?

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on my self; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are of heavy hearts.

but afterward she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.

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

For my heart was grieved and I was pricked in my reins.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara. For the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Jehovah, and wept sorely.

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

Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

But Jesus answered and said, You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said to Him, We are able.

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, because it was bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.

who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up.

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;"

As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty has made my soul bitter.

You who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth,

And I will turn your feast into mourning, and all your songs into weeping; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and the end of it like 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 to Elisha, Behold, please, the location of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees. But the waters are bad, and the ground is barren.

And I went to the angel and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take it and eat it up, and it will make your belly bitter, but it will be sweet as honey in your mouth.

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God, to go serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,

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

And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse. And the water that causes 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 with the bitter water.

For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess homes not their own.

who will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and an archer lurks for him.

What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted; I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

So Jehovah of Hosts says this concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink poisonous water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.

And when Esau heard the voice of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, me also, O my father!

And they will be bald for you, and gird with sackcloth. And they shall weep for you with bitterness of soul, a bitter wailing.

And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. And her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away. And the woman shall be a curse among her people.

And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of your loins; and groan with bitterness before their eyes.

A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones.

And they made their lives bitter with hard work in mortar and in bricks, and in all kinds of work in the field; all their work in which they made them do was with harshness.