The bitter day is a day utterly soaked in grief (see Ezekiel 27:31) with overtones of death itself (1 Samuel 15:32) as though the mourners were lamenting their own fate as well as that of their loved ones.1
The bitter day is a day utterly soaked in grief (see Ezekiel 27:31) with overtones of death itself (1 Samuel 15:32) as though the mourners were lamenting their own fate as well as that of their loved ones.1
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.