20And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
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For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. …
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-22)Naomi and Ruth, after many a weary step (the fatigue of the journey, we may suppose, being somewhat relieved by the good instructions Naomi gave to her proselyte and the good discourse they had together), came at last to Bethlehem. And they came very seasonably, in the beginning of the barley-harvest , which was the first of their harvests, that of wheat following after. Now Naomi’s own eyes might…
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