...Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, 7s 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 an husband also to night, and again empty : why...

...Beth'lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi 1 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara : for the Almighty...testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the...

...them, Call me not Naomi, call me • Mara : for the Almighty tiath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 t, behold, t " ! ? 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, which returned out of...

...should smite every idol, and lay it low, even though they should have to say with Naomi, " The Lord hath dealt very bitterly with me : I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home empty." But what is the instruction which the Lord desires to impart to his people by smiting their...

...and two children, and now returns to her distant friends, with only a little son. She may well say, " I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." There are a few who have been so far diicouraged by sickness, as to talk seriously of leaving the country....

...orphan charge, a new-made widow, meeting her fatherless babes with the cry of Naomi in her heart : " Call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me, for I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty ;" — of daughters held back by...

...orphan charge, a new-made widow, meeting her fatherless babes with the cry of Naomi in her heart : " Call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me, for I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty ;" — of daughters held back by...

...agreeable, attractive. But she replied in a forlorn tone "Call me not Naomi (pleasant) call me Mara (bitter) for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why then call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified...

...plenty but retraced her steps in poverty. How descriptive of her adverse circumstances is her lament! "I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." Naomi and Ruth, then, clinging to each other, plunge into the poverty and solitariness facing them...

...friends cried, "Is this Naomi?" and she replied, "Call me not Naomi [meaning 'pleasant, agreeable'], call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me" (Ruth 1:20). In the experience of Israel, Marah came after the great moments of high triumph as found...