But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
I have considered until morning— Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me.
I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth; I suffer Your terrors; I am distraught.
For all day long I have been plagued, And chastened every morning.
Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
“Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them.
And may God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved, I am bereaved!”
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills me with bitterness.