 | Richard Parkinson - Sermons, English - 1832 - 380 pages
...affliction, she said to the men of her city, " Call me not Naomi (which signifies fair and comely), call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me V When the Prophet, therefore, announces to his countrymen that the " name" of this Branch of the house... | |
 | 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....brought me home again empty : why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me ?" Though Naomi arrived... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 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... | |
 | Thomas Watson - Sermons, English - 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.... | |
 | Christian life - 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... | |
 | William Jay - Marriage - 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 - Bible - 1834 - 618 pages
...mourner seems to feel it; she bursts into an agony of grief, and thus vents the bitterness of her soul, "Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty...brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted • me }"* What simple,... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Bible - 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....brought me home again empty : why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me 1" Shfe left Bethlehem,... | |
 | Richard Charles Coxe - Sermons, English - 1834 - 380 pages
...Call me not Naomi," a heart-stricken parent has said, under circumstances of similar bereavement — " call me not Naomi, call me Mara : for the Almighty...I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home empty : why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1834 - 448 pages
...not Naomi (pleasant,) but call me Mara (bitter,) for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 1 went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty, why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me ? The instance of Elijah... | |
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And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty... 
