Ruth 1:20

New English Translation

But she replied to them, “Don’t call me ‘Naomi’! Call me ‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.

Cross References

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

Genesis 43:14

May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”

Job 11:7

“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

Job 19:6

know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.

Job 5:17

“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

Job 9:18

He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

Psalm 73:14

I suffer all day long, and am punished every morning.”

Psalm 88:15

I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.

Exodus 15:23

Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. (That is why its name was Marah.)

Exodus 6:3

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord’ I was not known to them.

Isaiah 38:13

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

Hebrews 12:11

Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those 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 still to come – the All-Powerful!

Revelation 21:22

Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God – the All-Powerful – and the Lamb are its temple.