48 Bible Verses about Bitterness

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and screaming, and abusive speech, be put away (removed) (expiated) from you, along with all malice.

See that no one misses the grace of God; that no bitter root spring up to cause trouble and defile many.

A foolish (stupid) son is a grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

The heart knows its own bitterness; and no one else can share its joy.

You are doomed! You call evil good and you call good evil. You turn darkness into light and light into darkness. You make what is bitter, sweet, and what is sweet you make bitter.

Another dies an angry being, never having tasted of good.

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

I find what was worse than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape from her. But she will capture the sinner.

The Spirit lifted me and took me away. I went away feeling bitter and angry. The strong power of Jehovah came over me.

The full person dislikes the honeycomb, but to the hungry every bitter thing is sweet.

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

I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are bitter.

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

If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.

For I perceive that you are full of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

My heart was grieved and I was pierced within.

They no longer drink wine with a song. The beverage is bitter to its drinkers.

She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.

Hannah was filled with grief and wept bitterly. She prayed and pledged an oath to Jehovah:

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

Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back.

Jesus told her: You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup I am about to take?

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water because it tasted bitter. That is why the place was called Marah (Bitter Place).

You who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. (Psalm 10:7)

As God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty? Who has made me taste bitterness?

You who turn justice to wormwood (a curse), and cast righteousness down to the earth

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

Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter.

Men from Jericho went to Elisha and said: You may know that this is a fine city but the water is bad and causes miscarriages.

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

Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.

Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites, Samuel said. Agag came to him trembling. Surely, the bitterness of death is past, Agag said.

He will have the woman drink the bitter water that can bring the curse. This water will go into her and become bitter.

The priest will write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

Behold, I bring the Chaldeans to power, that bitter and impetuous nation. They march through the expanse of the earth to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

He will not allow me to catch my breath. Yet he fills me with bitterness.

Archers provoked him, shot at him, and harassed him.

There is nothing I can say in answer to you. For you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour. I will limp until I die.

This is what Jehovah of Hosts says about the prophets: I will give them wormwood to eat and poison to drink. The prophets of Jerusalem have spread godlessness throughout the land.

When Esau heard this he cried out loudly and bitterly. He said: Give me your blessing also, Father!

They will make themselves bald for you and gird themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness and with painful mourning.

If she has become unclean by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that can bring the curse will go into her and become bitter. Her stomach will swell, her uterus will drop, and she will become cursed among her people.

So, son of man, groan with a breaking heart and with bitter crying while the people watch you.

A sound heart is life for the body. Envy (jealousy) is like bone cancer (decay) (rottenness to the bones).

They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work.