Ruth 1:20
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, + 1:20 Pleasant call me Mara; + 1:20 Bitter for Shaddai hath dealt very bitterly with me.
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Genesis 43:14And El Shaddai give you rachamim before the ish, that he may send away achichem acher (your other brother), and Binyamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
Exodus 15:23And when they came to Marah (Bitter Place), they could not drink of the mayim from Marah, for they were marim; therefore the shem of it was called Marah.
Job 6:4For the khitzim (arrows) of Shaddai are in me, 1 the poison whereof drinketh my ruach; 1 the terrors of Eloah do set themselves in array against me. 1
Job 11:7Canst thou search out the cheker Eloah (depths of G-d)? 1 Canst thou probe to the tachlis Shaddai (the end, completeness of Almighty)? 1
Psalms 73:14For kol hayom have I been plagued, 1 and chastened in the bekarim (mornings). 1
Isaiah 38:13I waited until boker, that, like an ari (lion), 1 so will He break all my atzmot; 1 from yom even to lailah wilt Thou make an end of me. 1
Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:20-22
Naomi's Reception at Bethlehem. ( b. c. 1312.) 19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? 20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? 22 So Naomi… Read the whole commentary →