Ruth 1:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

She said to them, “Call me no longer Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And she said to them, Call me not Naomi [pleasant]; call me Mara [bitter], for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

She replied to them, “Don’t call me Naomi, but call me Mara, for the Almighty has made me very bitter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But she said to them, "Do not call me Naomi (that is, beautiful), but call me Mara (that is, bitter). For the Almighty has greatly filled me with bitterness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful), but call me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me with bitterness.

Ruth 1:20 Cross References

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.

Genesis 43:14

may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Job 11:7

“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

Job 19:6

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

Job 5:17

“How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 9:18

he will not let me get my breath but fills me with bitterness.

Psalm 73:14

For all day long I have been plagued and am punished every morning.

Psalm 88:15

Wretched and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am desperate.

Exodus 15:23

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

Exodus 6:3

I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘The Lord’ I did not make myself known to them.

Isaiah 38:13

I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.

Hebrews 12:11

Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 21:22

I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.