| 1831 - 930 pages
...said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 ms Naotoai, seeing the hath Ruth gleans in the field 0} Boaz. RUTH. The kindness of Bum to Ruth. testified... | |
| Robert Vaughan - 1832 - 450 pages
...said, Is this Naomi ? And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi (pleasant), but call me Mara (bitter}; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me....Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me ? And how much of the state of mind now adverted to is sometimes... | |
| William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...tears, and said, " Call me not Naomi" — that is, pleasant; " call me Mara" — that is, bitter : " for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me...full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." Whence we may observe, That when persona go front home, they little think what may befall them before... | |
| John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...afflictions as the visitation of the Almighty : " and she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Marah ; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me....Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me ?" Though Naomi arrived in safety at her native city, and was recognised... | |
| William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...tears, and said, " Call me not Naomi" — that is, pleasant ; " call me Mara" — that is, bitter: " for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me...full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." Whence we may observe, That when persons go from home, they little think what may btfaH them before... | |
| 1833 - 152 pages
...full, and am come back empty." But Naomi did not live without God with her in the world — Naomi says, "I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." So Eli said, " It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good." And Job, instead of dwelling on the... | |
| Thomas Watson - 1833 - 794 pages
...reduced almost to nothing, is hard to flesh and blood, Ruth i. 20, 21, " Call me not Naomi, but Mara ; I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." This exposeth to contempt. When the prodigal was podr, his brother was ashamed to own him, Luke xv.... | |
| William Jay - 1833 - 430 pages
...life in the service of the religious public. ' Is this Naomi ?' ' Call me not Naomi ; call me Marah ; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full — ' Yet some true friendship will be found. Some will show kindness to his house for Jonathan's sake.... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pages
...into an agony of grief, and thus vents the bitterness of her soul, "Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me....Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted • me }"* What simple, but what forcible language the heart speaks... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 218 pages
...motherin-law. " Call me not Naomi," or my pleasant one, she replied ; " call me Mara," (that is bitter,) " for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me....Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me 1" Shfe left Bethlehem, enjoying the love and protection of a husband,... | |
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