And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord and unbind the hair of the woman's head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.

“Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.

And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.

Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

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

he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Job Continues: A Plea to God

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.

The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me.

they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”

“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;