Ruth 1:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.

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  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
  • Lam 3:1-9 : 1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath. 2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. 3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. 5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain. 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted. 10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste. 12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows. 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body. 14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day. 15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure. 16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust. 17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good. 18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord. 19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison. 20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.
  • Rev 21:22 : 22 And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.
  • Job 11:7 : 7 Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?
  • Job 19:6 : 6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
  • Ps 73:14 : 14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.
  • Ps 88:15 : 15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
  • Gen 43:14 : 14 So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.
  • Exod 6:3 : 3 I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.
  • Job 5:17 : 17 Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ruth 1:21-22
    2 verses
    90%

    21I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

    22So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.

  • Ruth 1:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    18And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more.

    19So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

  • Ruth 1:1-15
    15 verses
    77%

    1Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

    2And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.

    3And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, came to his end; and only her two sons were with her.

    4And they took two women of Moab as their wives: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth; and they went on living there for about ten years.

    5And Mahlon and Chilion came to their end; and the woman was without her two sons and her husband.

    6So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.

    7And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.

    8And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:

    9May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.

    10And they said to her, No, but we will go back with you to your people.

    11But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?

    12Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,

    13Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.

    14Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.

    15And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

  • Ruth 3:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?

    2And now, is there not Boaz, our relation, with whose young women you were? See, tonight he is separating the grain from the waste in his grain-floor.

  • Ruth 2:18-23
    6 verses
    72%

    18And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.

    19And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.

    20And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.

    21And Ruth the Moabitess said, Truly, he said to me, Keep near my young men till all my grain is cut.

    22And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.

    23So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.

  • Ruth 4:14
    71%

    14And the women said to Naomi, A blessing on the Lord, who has not let you be this day without a near relation, and may his name be great in Israel.

  • Ruth 2:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5Then Boaz said to his servant who was in authority over the cutters, Whose girl is this?

    6And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;

    7And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.

  • Ruth 3:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.

    17And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.

  • Ruth 2:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

    2And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

    3And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

  • 1 Sam 1:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.

    16Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.

  • Exod 15:23
    68%

    23And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.

  • Ruth 2:15
    68%

    15And when she got ready to take up the grain, Boaz gave his young men orders, saying, Let her take it even from among the cut grain, and say nothing to her.

  • Ruth 2:13
    68%

    13Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.

  • Ruth 4:3
    67%

    3Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's:

  • 1 Sam 1:10
    67%

    10And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.

  • Ruth 2:11
    67%

    11And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.

  • Ruth 4:16
    67%

    16And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it.

  • Ruth 3:10
    67%

    10And he said, May the Lord give you his blessing, my daughter: even better than what you did at the first is this last kind act you have done, in not going after young men, with or without wealth.

  • 1 Sam 1:18
    67%

    18And she said, May your servant have grace in your eyes. So the woman went away, and took part in the feast, and her face was no longer sad.

  • Judg 11:36
    66%

    36And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Sam 1:6
    66%

    6And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

  • 2 Sam 13:16
    66%

    16And she said to him, Not so, my brother, for this great wrong in sending me away is worse than what you did to me before. But he gave no attention to her.