Bible Verses about

Bitter Food


Proverbs 27:7

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Exodus 12:8

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Psalms 69:21

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Job 20:14

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus saith the 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 is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Proverbs 1:31

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Hebrews 12:15

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Job 13:26

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

Lamentations 3:15

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:19-22

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.