...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...

...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....

...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....

...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...

...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....testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me 1" Shfe left Bethlehem, enjoying the love and protection of a husband, and the filial attachment of...

...aboul them ; and they said, Is ihis Naomi ? And she said unto them. Call me not Naomi, call me Mam : for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me....the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty nath afflicted me ? So Naomi relumed, and Ruth the Moabiten her . daughter-in-law with her, which returned...

...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...testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me ? The instance of Elijah may also be mentioned, when he received the threatening message from Jezebel,...

...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...

...GREENFIELD. hem, Call me not 1 Naomi, call me t Mafor 'the Almighty hath 'dealt very bitterly with me. 21 eyed*! uot the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, ther mo Naomi, seeing 'the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? 22 So Naomi...

...the heaviest blow that ever I experienced in my outward enjoyments. I may say with Naom:. ' the Lord hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty.' \Ve went with the wholr- of our family to visit our native county, and in less than two months l"-r...