Ruth 1:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ 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, that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. 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 about me.

Job 5:17

“Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening 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 the day long I have been stricken, and chastened every morning.

Psalm 88:15

Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors; I am helpless.

Exodus 15:23

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Exodus 6:3

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to 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 thou dost bring me to an end.

Hebrews 12:11

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; 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

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