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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Common English Bible

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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.

Ruth 1:20 Cross References

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.

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.

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.

Psalm 88:15

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

Psalm 73:14

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

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 11:7

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

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.

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.”

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.

Revelation 21:22

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

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.

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.

Job 9:18

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