"will bear bitter fruit" ??

Question

I am translating a text and I cannot find out what's the meaning of this expression contained on this sentence.

"And in the following stanza it accuses the king of being driven too much by the desire to commit a murder which ' will bear bitter fruit ', to shed blood he must not touch."

can someone tell me a synonym to it in one word or two?
there is no answer to it in any dictionary I have searched.

thank you

Answer 1

Which will lead to serious consequences which he will later regret. That's rather a mouthful, though. "will have disastrous consequences", perhaps?

Answer 2

Fruit is meant to be sweet (in most cases). If a tree bears bitter fruit people will not think of it in a good way and will avoid eating its fruit.

So in life we avoid actions and decisions and people that bring no good result (the result is the fruit). All actions cause reactions, so even bad actions and bad people can bear fruit, but not a nice fruit, more often a bitter fruit (a bad result).

Answer 3

It means that if he commits that murder, that no good will come to him. That if he does this bad thing, that other bad things will happen. He will "reap" the bitterness--the bad fruit--of doing this. In one word or two, I'd say...

....to commit a murder which "will bring him no good", to shed blood he must not touch.

Answer 4

With me, it quite is an argument of "what you spot is what you get" I communicate how i think. I actual have a rule that if i say something approximately somebody, stable or undesirable, i could desire to be arranged to assert it to their face, no shaggy dog tale.

Answer 5

a "bitter fruit" would be the equivalent to an unpleasant or a bad outcome to a particular situation or set of circumstances.

Answer 6

Something which 'will bear bitter fruit' is something which, if done, will produce a disastrous effect, ie doing something which results in something undesireable happening.

Answer 7

the fruit are the children so the children to come will be bitter

Answer 8

it means: to commit a murder which 'will have bad consequences'

Answer 9

karma

Answer 10

try "be detrimental"