20"Don't call me Naomi, " she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.


In Context

17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."

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

19 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"

20 "Don't call me Naomi, " she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

21 I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me."

22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.

Ruth 1:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:20But 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:20And she said to them, Call me not Naomi call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:20And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:20And she saith unto them, 'Call me not Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly to me,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:20And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.