48 Bible Verses about Bitterness

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

Looking carefully lest any man fall short, away from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness sprouting up would cause trouble, and by this many may be 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 intermeddle with 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 man dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

And the name of the star is called Wormwood oil. And the third part of the waters developed into wormwood oil, and many of the 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] whose hands are chains. He who 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, and the hand of LORD was strong upon me.

The full soul loathes a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Does the spring pour out from the same opening the sweet and the bitter?

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

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

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

But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.

For I perceive that thou are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of unrighteousness.

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 those who drink it.

And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to LORD, and wept much.

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

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

But having answered, Jesus said, Ye know not what ye are asking. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am going to drink, or to be immersed the immersion that I am immersed? They say to 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 have shown us many and great troubles, will revive us again, and will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has 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 b

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, we pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the ground barren.

And I went to the agent, telling him to give me the little book. And he says to me, Take and eat it. And it will make thy belly bitter, but it will be sweet as honey in thy mouth.

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,

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

And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse shall enter into her 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, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.

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

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

What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Therefore thus says LORD 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 ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.

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

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

And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse shall enter into her bitter, and her body shall swell,

Sigh therefore, thou son of man. With the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness thou shall 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, with which they made them serve with rigor.