Ruth 1:20

Ruth 1:20
She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

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Genesis 15:13
He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 6:9
Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Numbers 20:15
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.

Deuteronomy 4:20
But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 26:6
The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

Acts 7:19
The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

Acts 7:34
I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’

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Genesis 17:5
Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 27:36
He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Genesis 35:11
God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

Genesis 43:14
May 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.”

1 Chronicles 1:44
Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

Job 11:7
“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Jeremiah 20:3
On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

Hosea 9:12
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Revelation 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.”

Revelation 21:22
I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

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Exodus 5:2
Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Exodus 6:7
I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exodus 7:5
The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”

Exodus 7:17
Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

Exodus 8:22
I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.

Exodus 9:14
For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Exodus 9:29
Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

Exodus 10:2
and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

Exodus 14:4
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

Exodus 14:18
The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”

Exodus 16:12
“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

Exodus 29:46
They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.

Exodus 31:13
“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

Deuteronomy 29:6
You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

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Deuteronomy 29:18
lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

Proverbs 5:4
but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Lamentations 3:5
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,

Revelation 8:11
The name of the star is “Wormwood.” One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

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Joshua 24:31
Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.

1 Samuel 3:7
Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh, neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed to him.

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Ruth 1:1
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

Ruth 1:5
Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

Isaiah 47:9
But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

Luke 7:12
Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

Luke 7:13
When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

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Genesis 45:11
There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.” ’

1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

1 Samuel 2:6
“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

1 Samuel 2:7
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

2 Kings 8:3
At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Job 1:10
Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 1:12
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Job 1:13
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Job 1:14
that a messenger came to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Job 1:15
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:16
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:17
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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Job 19:14
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

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Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

Job 22:2
“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Job 31:2
For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Job 40:2
“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Isaiah 24:9
They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

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Psalms 30:6
As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

Psalms 30:7
You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Psalms 107:39
Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

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Ruth 1:11
Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Ruth 1:14
They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

Ruth 1:15
She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

Ruth 1:16
Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

Ruth 1:17
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Ruth 1:18
When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Ruth 2:11
Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.

Psalms 37:5
Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Psalms 37:6
he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

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Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

Psalms 88:4
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Psalms 88:5
set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Psalms 88:7
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

Psalms 88:8
You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Psalms 88:9
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

Psalms 88:10
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.

Psalms 88:11
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

Psalms 88:12
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Psalms 88:13
But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

Psalms 88:14
Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

Psalms 88:17
They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

Psalms 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

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2 Samuel 17:8
Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

2 Kings 4:27
When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Job 7:11
“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:1
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 23:16
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

Isaiah 38:15
What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 54:6
For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

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Song of Solomon 1:6
Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

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Psalms 60:3
You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

Isaiah 51:17
Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

Isaiah 51:20
Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 51:21
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Isaiah 51:22
Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.

Jeremiah 25:15
For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

Jeremiah 25:16
They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

Jeremiah 25:17
Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:

Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;

Jeremiah 25:27
“You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’

Hosea 2:7
She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’

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Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

Luke 1:2
even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

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Isaiah 52:14
Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

Lamentations 4:1
How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Lamentations 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Lamentations 4:7
Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.

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Ezekiel 1:24
When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.

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Ezekiel 10:5
The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

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Acts 27:40
Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

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