Ruth 1:20

New American Bible - revised edition

But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi [‘Sweet’]. Call me Mara [‘Bitter’], for the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said: I am God the Almighty. Walk in my presence and be blameless.

Genesis 43:14

May God Almighty grant you mercy in the presence of the man, so that he may let your other brother go, as well as Benjamin. As for me, if I am to suffer bereavement, I shall suffer it.”

Job 11:7

Can you find out the depths of God? or find out the perfection of the Almighty?

Job 19:6

Know then that it is God who has dealt unfairly with me, and compassed me round with his net.

Job 5:17

Happy the one whom God reproves! The Almighty’s discipline do not reject.

Job 6:4

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

Job 9:18

He would not allow me to draw breath, but might fill me with bitter griefs.

Psalm 73:14

For I am afflicted day after day, chastised every morning.

Psalm 88:15

Why do you reject my soul, Lord, and hide your face from me?

Exodus 15:23

they arrived at Marah, where they could not drink its water, because it was too bitter. Hence this place was called Marah.

Exodus 6:3

As God the Almighty I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but by my name, Lord, I did not make myself known to them.

Isaiah 38:13

I cry out even until the dawn. Like a lion he breaks all my bones; from morning to night you make an end of me.

Hebrews 12:11

At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.” The First Vision.

Revelation 21:22

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