Lexicon :: Strong's G4089 - pikros

When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father! ”

They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter ​— ​that is why it was named Marah.[fn]

Samuel said, “Bring me King Agag of Amalek.”

Agag came to him trembling,[fn] for he thought, “Certainly the bitterness of death has come.”[fn][fn]

Then Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers? ”

For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter for both slaves and free people.[fn] There was no one to help Israel.

who sharpen their tongues like swords

and aim bitter words like arrows,

in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood

and as sharp as a double-edged sword.

A person who is full tramples on a honeycomb,

but to a hungry person, any bitter thing is sweet.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Woe to those who call evil good

and good evil,

who substitute darkness for light

and light for darkness,

who substitute bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter.

They no longer sing and drink wine;

beer is bitter to those who drink it.

Your own evil will discipline you;

your own apostasies will reprimand you.

Recognize[fn] how evil and bitter it is

for you to abandon the LORD your God

and to have no fear of me.

This is the declaration

of the Lord GOD of Armies.

Your way and your actions

have brought this on you.

This is your punishment. It is very bitter,

because it has reached your heart!

For whenever I speak, I cry out,

I proclaim, “Violence and destruction! ”

so the word of the LORD has become my

constant disgrace and derision.

Therefore, this is what the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets:

I am about to feed them wormwood

and give them poisoned water to drink,

for from the prophets of Jerusalem

ungodliness[fn] has spread throughout the land.

“Because of you, they raise their voices

and cry out bitterly.

They throw dust on their heads;

they roll in ashes.

Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans,[fn]

that bitter, impetuous nation

that marches across the earth’s open spaces

to seize territories not its own.

The great day of the LORD is near,

near and rapidly approaching.

Listen, the day of the LORD —

then the warrior’s cry is bitter.