Ruth 1:20
20She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; ▼▼ Naomi means pleasant
call me bMara, ▼▼ Mara means bitter
for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. Job 9:18
18he will not let me get my breath,but fills me with bitterness.
Psalms 60:3
3 dYou have made your people see hard things;eyou have given us fwine to drink that made us stagger.
Isaiah 51:17-22
17 gWake yourself, wake yourself,stand up, O Jerusalem,
hyou who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
the cup of his wrath,
who have drunk to the dregs
the bowl, ithe cup of staggering.
18 jThere is none to guide her
among all the sons she has borne;
there is none to take her by the hand
among all the sons she has brought up.
19 kThese two things have happened to you—
who will console you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
who will comfort you? ▼
▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text how shall I comfort you
20 mYour sons have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an nantelope oin a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
the rebuke of your God.
21 pTherefore hear this, you who are afflicted,
who are drunk, but not with wine:
22Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
your God qwho pleads the cause of his people:
“Behold, I have taken from your hand rthe cup of staggering;
the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
Jeremiah 9:15
15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: sBehold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them tpoisonous water to drink.Jeremiah 23:15
15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:u“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
vand give them wpoisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
Lamentations 3:19
19 xRemember my affliction and my wanderings,ythe wormwood and zthe gall!
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