'Gall' in the Bible
so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness).
“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,And from the fields of Gomorrah;Their grapes are grapes of poison,Their clusters, bitter.
“His arrows surround me.He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy;He pours out my gall on the ground.
“The arrow is drawn forth and it comes out of his back [after passing through his body];Yes, the glittering point comes out of his gall.Terrors march in upon him;
They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food,And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts in regard to the prophets,‘Behold, I am going to feed them [the bitterness of] wormwoodAnd make them drink the poisonous water [of gall],For from the [counterfeit] prophets of JerusalemProfaneness and ungodliness have spread into all the land.’”
Remember [O Lord] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).
Do horses run on rocks?Do men plow rocks with oxen? [Of course not!]Yet you have turned justice into poisonAnd the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness),
they offered Him wine mixed with gall (myrrh, a bitter-tasting narcotic) to drink; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it.
For I see that you are provoked by bitterness and bound by sin.”
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- Bile (1 instance)
- Bitterness (45 instances)
- Chafe (1 instance)
- Crust (2 instances)
- Freshness (1 instance)
- Fret (10 instances)
- Gall (16 instances)
- Impudence (1 instance)
- Insolence (14 instances)
- Irritate (3 instances)
- Rancor (1 instance)
- Resentment (14 instances)
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