So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.
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 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.
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;
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.
Now there was a vessel ready, full of bitter wine, and they put a sponge full of it on a stick and put it to his mouth.
Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
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.
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.
The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine,
And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.
And one of them went quickly and, getting a sponge full of bitter wine, put it on a rod, and gave it to him for drink, saying, Let be; let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.
And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;
Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him.
And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
They gave him wine mixed with bitter drink: and after tasting it, he took no more.
And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying,
And straight away one of them went quickly, and took a sponge, and made it full of bitter wine, and put it on a rod and gave him drink.
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.
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;
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
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.
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
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