Ruth 1:20

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

And she said {H559} unto them, Call {H7121} me not Naomi {H5281}, call {H7121} me Mara {H4755}: for the Almighty {H7706} hath dealt very {H3966} bitterly {H4843} with me.

"Don't call me Na'omi [pleasant]," she answered them; "call me Marah [bitter], because Shaddai has made my life very bitter.

“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Note: Commentary was generated by an advanced AI, utilizing a prompt that emphasized Biblical fidelity over bias. We've found these insights to be consistently reliable, yet we always encourage prayerful discernment through the Holy Spirit. The Scripture text and cross-references are from verified, non-AI sources.

  • Job 6:4

    For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • Hebrews 12:11

    Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

  • Lamentations 3:1

    ¶ I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • Lamentations 3:20

    My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

  • Job 19:6

    Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

  • Isaiah 38:13

    I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Psalms 73:14

    For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

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