Verse 20

She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison. The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
  • Lam 3:1-9 : 1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath. 2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light. 3 Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long. 4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones. 5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead. 7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains. 8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. 10 He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding. 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate. 12 He has bent His bow and made me the target for His arrows. 13 He has pierced my inward parts with the arrows from His quiver. 14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people; their mocking song all day long. 15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood. 16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes. 17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is. 18 So I say, 'My strength is gone, and so is my hope from the LORD.' 19 Remember my affliction and my wandering—the bitterness and the gall. 20 Surely my soul remembers and is bowed down within me.
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, the One who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
  • Rev 21:22 : 22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
  • Job 11:7 : 7 Can you search out the depths of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?
  • Job 19:6 : 6 know then that God has wronged me and surrounded me with His net.
  • Ps 73:14 : 14 For I am stricken all day long and chastened every morning.
  • Ps 88:15 : 15 Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I have calmed myself until morning; like a lion, He breaks all my bones. Day and night You bring me to an end.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before Me faithfully and be blameless."
  • Gen 43:14 : 14 May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.
  • Exod 6:3 : 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name, the LORD, I was not known to them.
  • Job 5:17 : 17 Behold, blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.