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


In Context

17 where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me.|

18 When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.

19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, |Is this Naomi?|

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

21 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?|

22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Ruth 1:20 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:20"Don't call me Naomi, " she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.

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 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.