Bible Verses About Bitterness

For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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;

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.