Haller's Concordance: BITTER

• And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth. Ex. 1:14
• And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness. Ex. 15:23
• And when the woman shall stand before the Lord, he shall uncover her head, and shall put on her hands the sacrifice of remembrance, and the oblation of jealousy: and he himself shall hold the most bitter waters, whereon he hath heaped curses with execration. Num. 5:18
• And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee. Num. 5:19
• And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wash them out with the most bitter waters, upon which he hath heaped the curses, Num. 5:23
• To take a handful of the sacrifice of that which is offered, and burn it upon the altar: and so give the most bitter waters to the woman to drink. Num. 5:26
• They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents. Dt. 32:24
• Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter. Dt. 32:32
• But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but call me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me with bitterness. Ruth 1:20
• And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag, the king of Amalec. And Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said: Doth bitter death separate in this manner? 1 Ki. 15:32
• And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people. 2 Ki. 17:8
• I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king? 2 Ki. 19:35
• For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was exceedingly bitter, and that they were consumed even to them that were shut up in prison, and the lowest persons, and that there was no one to help Israel. 4 Ki. 14:26
• There bitter fountains were made sweet for them to drink, and for forty years they received food from heaven. Jud. 5:15
• For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth. Job 13:26
• For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing, Ps. 64:3
• But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. Pr. 5:4
• A soul that is full shall tread upon the honeycomb: and a soul that is hungry shall take even bitter for sweet. Pr. 27:7
• And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her. Eccl. 7:26
• For a father being afflicted with bitter grief, made to himself the image of his son, who was quickly taken away: and him who then had died as a man, he began now to worship as a god, and appointed him rites and sacrifices among his servants. Wis. 14:15
• He shall entertain and feed, and give drink to the unthankful, and moreover he shall hear bitter words. Sir. 29:31
• Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness. Sir. 30:17
• Was not bitter water made sweet with wood? Sir. 38:5
• ¤ O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! Sir. 41:1
• Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Isa. 5:20
• They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. Isa. 24:9
• Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Isa. 38:17
• Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts. Jer. 2:19
• Thy ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy heart. Jer. 4:18
• Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us. Jer. 6:26
• And they shall shave themselves bald for thee, and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping. Ezec. 27:31
• And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day. Amso 8:10
• For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own. Hab. 1:6
• The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and exceeding swift: the voice of the day of the Lord is bitter, the mighty man shall there meet with tribulation. Soph. 1:14
• But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus. 2 Ma. 6:7
• But the Lord, the God of Israel, that seeth all things, struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts. 2 Ma. 9:5
• Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them. Col. 3:19
• Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water? Jas. 3:11
• But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. Jas. 3:14
• And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. Apoc. 8:11
• And I went to the angel, saying unto him that he should give me the book. And he said to me: Take the book and eat it up. And it shall make thy belly bitter: but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey. Apoc. 10:9
• And I took the book from the hand of the angel and ate it up: and it was in my mouth, sweet as honey. And when I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. Apoc. 10:10
• For what is man, that thou art angrie with him: or the corruptible kinde, that thou art so bitter touching it? 4 Esd. 8:34