Verse 20

And she answered them, Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara: for the Almightie hath giuen me much bitternes.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.
  • Lam 3:1-9 : 1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation. 2 He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light. 3 Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour. 6 He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer. 7 He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy. 8 Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer. 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths. 10 He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places. 11 He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. 12 He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow. 13 Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines. 14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes. 17 Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie, 18 And I saide, My strength & mine hope is perished from the Lord, 19 Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood and the gall. 20 My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but, grieuous: but afterwarde, it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are thereby exercised.
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, Which is, and Which was, and Which is to come, euen the Almightie.
  • Rev 21:22 : 22 And I sawe no Temple therein: for the Lorde God almightie and the Lambe are the Temple of it.
  • Job 11:7 : 7 Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?
  • Job 19:6 : 6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
  • Ps 73:14 : 14 For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.
  • Ps 88:15 : 15 I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I rekoned to the morning: but he brake all my bones, like a lion: from day to night wilt thou make an ende of me.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninetie yeere olde and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said vnto him, I am God all sufficient. walke before me, and be thou vpright,
  • Gen 43:14 : 14 And God almightie giue you mercie in the sight of the man, that hee may deliuer you your other brother, and Beniamin: but I shall be robbed of my childe, as I haue bene.
  • Exod 6:3 : 3 And I appeared vnto Abraha, to Izhak, & to Iaakob by the Name of Almightie God: but by my Name Iehouah was I not knowen vnto the.
  • Job 5:17 : 17 Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.