 | James Gratrix - 1843 - 380 pages
...should smite every idol, and lay it low, even though they should have to say with Naomi, " The Lord hath dealt very bitterly with me : I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home empty." But what is the instruction which the Lord desires to impart to his people by smiting their... | |
 | Religion - 1843 - 592 pages
...cry of Naomi in her heart : " Call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me, for I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty ;" — of daughters held back by friendly violence, from the sight of a father's mangled remains—... | |
 | 1843 - 606 pages
...cry of Naomi in her heart : " Call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me, for I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty ;" — of daughters held back by friendly violence, from the sight of a father's mangled remains—... | |
 | Home missions - 1845 - 882 pages
...and two children, and now returns to her distant friends, with only a little son. She may well say, " I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." There are a few who have been so far diicouraged by sickness, as to talk seriously of leaving the country.... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...unto them. Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. 21 1 way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. 25 The LORD and the Almighty hath afflicted me? 2-2 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moaoitess, her daughter-iu-law,... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...hierarchy, that those who return from the conventicle to their communion, cannot adopt the words of Naomi, " I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." On the contrary, whatever may be the case as to spiritual things, in worldly concerns many of them... | |
 | Christian Gottlob Barth - 1844 - 298 pages
...they said. She said, "Call me not Naomi (which means pleasant) ; call me Mara, (which means bitter). I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." It was the time of barley harvest, and Ruth went into the fields to glean. And God so ordered it that... | |
 | Grace Aguilar - 1845 - 400 pages
...afflictions which caused her to reply to their eager 'greetings, " Call me not Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me...home again empty. Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing that the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me ?" Again we find Naomi... | |
 | George Cole - 1845 - 124 pages
..."Call me not Naomi,* but call me Marah,t for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went ont full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty....me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me and the o Almighty hath afflicted me?" But these very circumstances led to the departure of Ruth ont... | |
 | 1845 - 696 pages
...may be lifted up in judgments ; and we may be ready to say — " Call me not Naomi, call me Mara : for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me....full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty." Our own wickedness may correct us, and our own backslidings may reprove us. Let us not put temporal... | |
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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 : why then call . ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the... 
