Jeremiah 9:15
9:15 So then, listen to what I, the
Lord God of Israel who rules over all,
say.
‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
Jeremiah 23:15
23:15 So then I, the Lord who rules over all,
have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem:
‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering
and drink the poison water of judgment.
For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason
that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’”
Numbers 5:18-24
5:18 Then the priest will have the woman stand before the
Lord, uncover the woman’s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.
5:19 Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, “If no other
man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.
5:20 But if you
have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”
5:21 Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse
and will say
to the her, “The
Lord make you an attested curse
among your people,
if the
Lord makes
your thigh fall away
and your abdomen swell;
5:22 and this water that causes the curse will go
into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.”
Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.”
5:23 “‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.
5:24 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.
Deuteronomy 32:32
32:32 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.
Psalms 69:21
69:21 They put bitter poison into my food,
and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
Lamentations 3:19
ז (Zayin)
3:19 Remember my impoverished and homeless condition,
which is a bitter poison.
Matthew 27:34
27:34 and offered Jesus
wine mixed with gall to drink.
But after tasting it, he would not drink it.