'Bitter' in the Bible

And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

And hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Give a blessing to me, even to me, O my father!

This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

Now the land was in bitter need of food.

Then in bitter grief they put the bags on the asses again and went back to the town.

A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.

And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.

Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.

And he will make the woman come before the Lord with her hair loose, and will put the meal offering, the offering of a bitter spirit, in her hands; and the priest will take in his hand the bitter water causing the curse;

And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;

And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;

And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.

And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.

And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.

In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;

And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:

A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.

And the children of Dan said to him, Say no more, or men of bitter spirit may make an attack on you, causing loss of your life and the lives of your people.

And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.

And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.

All through the life of Saul there was bitter war against the Philistines; and whenever Saul saw any strong man or any good fighting man, he kept him near himself.

And everyone who was in trouble, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, came together to him, and he became captain over them: about four hundred men were joined to him.

And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

Then David gave way to bitter grief, and so did all the men who were with him:

Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?

Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;

And the salvation of that day was changed to sorrow for all the people: for it was said to the people, The king is in bitter grief for his son.

Now you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera the Benjamite of Bahurim, who put a bitter curse on me on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to see me at Jordan, and I gave him my oath by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death by the sword.

Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.

Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria.

So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.

But Jezebel, his wife, came to him and said, Why is your spirit so bitter that you have no desire for food?

And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.

For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.

Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.

Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.

How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.

For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.

Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.

By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter: