Sunday, March 10, 2013

Bitter things in Scripture


Water

James 3:11  

Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

Destruction

Deuteronomy 32:24

 I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Clusters

Deuteronomy 32:32  

Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.

Affliction

2 Kings 14:26  

The LORD had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering; there was no one to help them.

Soul

Job 3:20  

“Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,

Writings

Job 13:26  

For you write down bitter things against me and make me inherit the sins of my youth.

Complaint

Job 23:2  

“Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

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