When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, ‘I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.
Ruth 1:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara,’ she answered, ‘for the Almighty has made me very bitter. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. Common English Bible 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 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 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. |
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, ‘I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.
May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.’
Can you fathom the depths of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in his net.
See how happy is the person whom God corrects; so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.
Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
He doesn’t let me catch my breath but fills me with bitter experiences.
They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter #– #that is why it was named Marah.
I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’ ,
I thought until the morning: He will break all my bones like a lion. By nightfall you make an end of me.
No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘the one who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.’
I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.