Verse 21
Ruth 1:21
Darby Translation
21
I went out full, and Jehovah has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing Jehovah has brought me low, and the Almighty has afflicted 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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Chapter 1 Context
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And it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a ce...
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And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons...
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And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
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And they took them Moabitish wives; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth:...
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And Mahlon and Chilion died also, both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of he...
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And she arose, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the fields of Moab; for she had heard...
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Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she had been, and her two daughters-in-law with her;...
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And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each to her mother's house. Jehovah deal kind...
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9
Jehovah grant you that ye may find rest, each in the house of her husband. And she kissed them; and...
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10
And they said to her, We will certainly return with thee to thy people.
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11
And Naomi said, Return, my daughters: why will ye go with me? Are there yet sons in my womb, that th...
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Return, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, should I...
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would ye wait on that account till they were grown? Would ye stay on that account from having husban...
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14
And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave to...
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And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back to her people and to her gods: return after thy...
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16
And Ruth said, Do not intreat me to leave thee, to return from [following] after thee; for whither t...
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where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if augh...
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And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
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19
And they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they came to Bethlehem, th...
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20
And she said to them, Call me not Naomi call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with...
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I went out full, and Jehovah has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing Jehova...
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So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the fi...
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