"For I seethat you are in the gallof bitternessand in the bondageof iniquity."
[Yet] his foodin his stomachis changedTo the venomof cobraswithinhim.
OLORD,surelyI am Your servant,I am Your servant,the sonof Your handmaid,You have loosedmy bonds.
His own iniquitieswill capturethe wicked,And he will be heldwith the cordsof his sin.
And nowdo not carryon as scoffers,Oryour fetterswill be madestronger;For I have heardfrom the LordGODof hostsOf decisivedestructionon allthe earth.
"Is thisnot the fastwhich I choose,To loosenthe bondsof wickedness,To undothe bandsof the yoke,And to letthe oppressedgofreeAnd breakeveryyoke?
"Your waysand your deedsHave broughtthesethingsto you. Thisis your evil.Howbitter!Howit has touchedyour heart!"
thereforethussaysthe LORDof hosts,the Godof Israel,"behold,I will feedthem, thispeople,with wormwoodand givethem poisonedwaterto drink.
Remembermy afflictionand my wandering,the wormwoodand bitterness.
He has besiegedand encompassedme with bitternessand hardship.
Jesusansweredthem, "Truly,truly,I sayto you, everyonewho commitssinis the slaveof sin.
Let allbitternessand wrathand angerand clamorand slanderbe put awayfrom you, alongwith allmalice.
For we alsooncewere foolishourselves,disobedient,deceived,enslavedto variouslustsand pleasures,spending our lifein maliceand envy,hateful,hatingone another.
Seeto it that noonecomes shortof the graceof God;that norootof bitternessspringingup causes trouble,and by it manybe defiled;
promisingthem freedomwhile they themselvesare slavesof corruption;for by whata manis overcome,by thishe is enslaved.
For ifGoddid not spareangelswhen they sinned,but cast them into helland committedthem to pitsof darkness,reservedfor judgment;
