Verse 21
Ruth 1:21
Young's Literal Translation
21
I went out full, and empty hath Jehovah brought me back, why do ye call me Naomi, and Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath done evil to me?'
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֲנִי֙ מְלֵאָ֣ה הָלַ֔כְתִּי וְ/רֵיקָ֖ם הֱשִׁיבַ֣/נִי יְהוָ֑ה לָ֣/מָּה תִקְרֶ֤אנָה לִ/י֙ נָעֳמִ֔י וַֽ/יהוָה֙ עָ֣נָה בִ֔/י וְ/שַׁדַּ֖י הֵ֥רַֽע לִֽ/י
English Translation
I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me?
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And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land,...
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And the name of the man [is] Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons...
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And Elimelech husband of Naomi dieth, and she is left, she and her two sons;
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and they take to them wives, Moabitesses: the name of the one [is] Orpah, and the name of the second...
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And they die also, both of them -- Mahlon and Chilion -- and the woman is left of her two children a...
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And she riseth, she and her daughters-in-law, and turneth back from the fields of Moab, for she hath...
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And she goeth out from the place where she hath been, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and the...
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And Naomi saith to her two daughters-in-law, 'Go, turn back, each to the house of her mother; Jehova...
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Jehovah doth grant to you, and find ye rest each in the house of her husband;' and she kisseth them,...
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10
And they say to her, 'Surely with thee we go back to thy people.'
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11
And Naomi saith, 'Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowe...
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12
Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for m...
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for them do ye wait till that they grow up? for them do ye shut yourselves up, not to be to a husban...
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14
And they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah kisseth her mother-in-law, and Ruth hath cle...
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15
And she saith, 'Lo, thy sister-in-law hath turned back unto her people, and unto her god, turn thou...
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16
And Ruth saith, 'Urge me not to leave thee -- to turn back from after thee; for whither thou goest I...
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17
Where thou diest I die, and there I am buried; thus doth Jehovah to me, and thus doth He add -- for...
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18
And she seeth that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceaseth to speak unto her;
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19
and they go both of them till their coming in to Beth-Lehem; and it cometh to pass at their coming i...
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20
And she saith unto them, 'Call me not Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly...
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I went out full, and empty hath Jehovah brought me back, why do ye call me Naomi, and Jehovah hath t...
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And Naomi turneth back, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who hath turned back fr...
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