Jer 2:19, 4:18, Act 8:23, Heb 12:15 | ESV | STEP | Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God ; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts .

Jeremiah 2:19

19 ^aYour evil will chastise you,
and ^byour apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and ^cbitter
for ^dyou to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,

declares the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

18 Your ways and your deeds
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and ^eit is bitter;
it has reached your very heart.”

Acts 8:23

23 For I see that you are in ^fthe gall ^{▼▼That is, a bitter fluid secreted by the liver; bile} of bitterness and in ^hthe bond of iniquity.”

Hebrews 12:15

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