Thus says the LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.
'Curse Meroz,' said the angel of the LORD. 'Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.'
She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
He went out, and wept bitterly.
Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.
The priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
"'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
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 and become bitter.
When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:
You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."
I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
"whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
The great day of the LORD is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of the LORD. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
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