| 1839 - 596 sidor
...oi».niJ.ins /j.oi(>a>. 15. J. ii. 16, 4. p. 1088. (c) A herb proverbially bitter. So Ruth. i. 20. " Call " me not Naomi, call me Mara ; for the Almighty hath " dealt very bitterly with me" — mara signifying bitter. wood, become poisonous (a) ; and many of the men died from the waters,... | |
| 1839 - 612 sidor
...bereavement so complicated, a calamity so overwhelming is sustained, who can wonder at the exclamation, "Call me not Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me!" It is vours, then, my Christian brethren, the patrons and supporters of this institution, to pour the... | |
| Henry Blunt - 1839 - 310 sidor
...years before, is called in Scripture language, " a great woman," might now say with Naomi of old, " I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." Happy are they who lay up treasures "where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt, and where thieves do... | |
| Henry Blunt - 1839 - 310 sidor
...years before, is called in Scripture language, " a great woman,' might now say with Naomi of old, " I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." Happy are they who lay up treasures " where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt, and where thieves do... | |
| 1839 - 758 sidor
...Naomi? But what a change to herself ! and she felt it keenly, for she said " Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me." For a moment she seemed to lose that noble character which she had hitherto sustained, and under the... | |
| 1840 - 742 sidor
...bead there is no soundness. Is this she wlio was called Naomi, beautiful? Hear bow she speaks : — 'Call me not Naomi; call me Mara : for the Almighty...very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord bath brought me borne again empty. Why call ye me then Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against... | |
| 1840 - 732 sidor
...Naomi, beautiful? Hear how she speaks : — ' Call me not Naomi; call me Mara : for the Almighty bath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord bath brought me home again empty. Why call ye me then Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against... | |
| John East - 1841 - 266 sidor
...mother-in-law felt this, when she sorrowfully, though resignedly, said to her friends at Bethlehem, " Call me not Naomi, call me Mara ; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me ; and the Almighty hath afflicted me." t It is remarkable, that this grand appellation of Jehovah occurs... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1842 - 638 sidor
...bereaved affections, when she replied to her old companion, " Call me not Naomi, call me Mara, for tbe Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me ; I went...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 excitement... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 sidor
...alive ; I wound, and I heal ; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. — Deut xxxii. 39. The A'lmighty hath dealt very bitterly with me ; I...and the Lord hath brought me home again empty.— Ruth i. 20, 21. When Samuel had told Eli what the Lord would do against his house, he said, It is the... | |
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