She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Parallel translations
- KJV And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
- BSB “Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
- NKJV But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
- NASB But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
- NLT “Don’t call me Naomi,” she responded. “Instead, call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me.
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- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
- Heb 12:11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
- Ps 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
- Lam 3:1–20I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- Job 19:6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- Ps 73:14For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
- Isa 38:13I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
- Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
- Exod 6:3and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
- Job 11:7“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- Gen 43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
- Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega, ” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
- Rev 21:22I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
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