Ruth 1:20

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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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  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ruth 1:21-22
    2 verses
    90%

    21I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.

    22So Naomi returned from the fields of Moab, accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

  • Ruth 1:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    18When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.

    19So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"

  • Ruth 1:1-15
    15 verses
    77%

    1During the time when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah left to live temporarily in the fields of Moab, he, his wife, and his two sons.

    2The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They came to the fields of Moab and settled there.

    3Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.

    4These sons married Moabite women. One was named Orpah, and the other was named Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

    5Then both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

    6Naomi arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the fields of Moab because she had heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food.

    7She left the place where she had been living, along with her two daughters-in-law, and they began to travel on the road back to the land of Judah.

    8But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

    9May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." She kissed them goodbye, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

    10They said to her, "We will go back with you to your people."

    11But Naomi replied, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who could become your husbands?

    12Return home, my daughters. I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons—

    13would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters, it is more bitter for me than for you because the LORD’s hand has turned against me."

    14They lifted up their voices and wept again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

    15Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Return with her."

  • Ruth 3:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Then Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, 'My daughter, should I not seek a home for you where you will be well taken care of?'

    2Now is not Boaz, our relative, with whose young women you have been working? Tonight, he will be winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

  • Ruth 2:18-23
    6 verses
    72%

    18She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Ruth also brought out and gave Naomi what she had leftover after she had eaten her fill.

    19Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you." Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose field she had worked. She said, "The man's name I worked with today is Boaz."

    20Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, "That man is a close relative of ours; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers."

    21Then Ruth the Moabite said, "He even told me, 'Stay close to my harvesters until they have finished all my harvest.'"

    22Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, so that you may not be harmed in another field."

    23So Ruth stayed close to the young women of Boaz to glean until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

  • Ruth 4:14
    71%

    14The women said to Naomi, 'Praise the Lord, who has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer today. May his name become famous in Israel!'

  • Ruth 2:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5Boaz asked the servant who was in charge of the harvesters, "Whose young woman is this?"

    6The servant replied, "She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

    7"She asked, 'Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.' She came and has been working steadily from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter."

  • Ruth 3:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, 'How did it go, my daughter?' Then she told her everything the man had done for her.

    17She added, 'He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, “Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.”'

  • Ruth 2:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a prominent and wealthy man of the family of Elimelech. His name was Boaz.

    2Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and gather leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter."

    3So she went out, entered a field, and began to glean behind the harvesters. By chance, she found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the family of Elimelech.

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

    15Hannah answered, 'No, my lord. I am a woman deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.'

    16Do not consider your servant a worthless woman. It is out of my great sorrow and distress that I have been speaking until now.'

  • Exod 15:23
    68%

    23When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. That is why the place is called Marah.

  • Ruth 2:15
    68%

    15When she got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.

  • Ruth 2:13
    68%

    13She said, "May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord, because you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant—even though I am not one of your servants."

  • Ruth 4:3
    67%

    3Then Boaz said to the kinsman-redeemer, 'The portion of the field that belonged to our relative Elimelech is being sold by Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab.'

  • 1 Sam 1:10
    67%

    10In her deep anguish, Hannah prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.

  • Ruth 2:11
    67%

    11Boaz replied, "It has been fully reported to me all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people you did not know before.

  • Ruth 4:16
    67%

    16Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became his nurse.

  • Ruth 3:10
    67%

    10He said, 'May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have shown great kindness now, even greater than before, by not pursuing younger men, whether rich or poor.'

  • 1 Sam 1:18
    67%

    18She said, 'May your servant find favor in your eyes.' Then she went her way, and she ate, and her face was no longer downcast.

  • Judg 11:36
    66%

    36She said to him, 'My father, you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me just as you promised, since the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.'

  • 1 Sam 1:6
    66%

    6Her rival provoked her severely to irritate her because the LORD had closed her womb.

  • 2 Sam 13:16
    66%

    16But she said to him, 'No! Sending me away would be a greater wrong than what you have already done to me.' But he refused to listen to her.