And he went outside and wept bitterly.

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

She was very upset as she prayed to the Lord, and she was weeping uncontrollably.

“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin.”

Those who call evil good and good evil are as good as dead, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

He will make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness.

He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

“‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.

For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.

“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.

He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

Look, ambassadors cry out in the streets; messengers sent to make peace weep bitterly.

They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.