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Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says concerning the prophets:“ I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink. For it is because of Jerusalem’s prophets that wickedness has filled this land.”
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Jeremiah 9:15
So now, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Look! I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink.
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Lamentations 3:19
The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.
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Jeremiah 35:11
But when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked this country, we were afraid of the Babylonian and Syrian armies. So we decided to move to Jerusalem. That is why we are here.”
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2 Samuel 20 6
Then David said to Abishai,“ Sheba son of Bicri is going to hurt us more than Absalom did. Quick, take my troops and chase after him before he gets into a fortified town where we can’t reach him.”
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Psalms 69:21
But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.
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Matthew 27:34
The soldiers gave Jesus wine mixed with bitter gall, but when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it.
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Deuteronomy 29:18
I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you— no man, woman, clan, or tribe— will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.
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Jeremiah 4:5-6
“ Shout to Judah, and broadcast to Jerusalem! Tell them to sound the alarm throughout the land:‘ Run for your lives! Flee to the fortified cities!’Raise a signal flag as a warning for Jerusalem:‘ Flee now! Do not delay!’ For I am bringing terrible destruction upon you from the north.”
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Amos 6:10
And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor,“ Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear,“ No, by...,” he will interrupt and say,“ Stop! Don’t even mention the name of the Lord.”)
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Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron,“ This is what the Lord meant when he said,‘ I will display my holiness through those who come near me. I will display my glory before all the people.’” And Aaron was silent.
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Zechariah 2:13
Be silent before the Lord, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling.”
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Lamentations 3:27-28
And it is good for people to submit at an early age to the yoke of his discipline:Let them sit alone in silence beneath the Lord’s demands.
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Psalms 39:2
But as I stood there in silence— not even speaking of good things— the turmoil within me grew worse.
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Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.”
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Jeremiah 14:20
Lord, we confess our wickedness and that of our ancestors, too. We all have sinned against you.
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Numbers 5:18-24
When the priest has presented the woman before the Lord, he must unbind her hair and place in her hands the offering of proof— the jealousy offering to determine whether her husband’s suspicions are justified. The priest will stand before her, holding the jar of bitter water that brings a curse to those who are guilty.The priest will then put the woman under oath and say to her,‘ If no other man has had sex with you, and you have not gone astray and defiled yourself while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune from the effects of this bitter water that brings on the curse.But if you have gone astray by being unfaithful to your husband, and have defiled yourself by having sex with another man—’“ At this point the priest must put the woman under oath by saying,‘ May the people know that the Lord’s curse is upon you when he makes you infertile, causing your womb to shrivel and your abdomen to swell.Now may this water that brings the curse enter your body and cause your abdomen to swell and your womb to shrivel.’ And the woman will be required to say,‘ Yes, let it be so.’And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into the bitter water.He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings on the curse. When the water enters her body, it will cause bitter suffering if she is guilty.
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Deuteronomy 32:32
Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison, and their clusters are bitter.
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2 Kings 7 3-2 Kings 7 4
Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates.“ Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other.“ We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”
