Ruth 1:20
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20 But she said to them, “Do not call me [a]Naomi; call me [b]Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
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Job 6:4
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4 (A)For the arrows of the Almighty are within me;
My spirit drinks in their poison;
(B)The terrors of God are arrayed (C)against me.
Hebrews 12:11
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11 Now no [a]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields (A)the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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- Hebrews 12:11 discipline
Lamentations 3:1-20
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The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope
3 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
2 He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
3 Surely He has turned His hand against me
Time and time again throughout the day.
4 He has aged (A)my flesh and my skin,
And (B)broken my bones.
5 He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and [a]woe.
6 (C)He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.
7 (D)He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
8 Even (E)when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
10 (F)He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in [b]ambush.
11 He has turned aside my ways and (G)torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
12 He has bent His bow
And (H)set me up as a target for the arrow.
13 He has caused (I)the [c]arrows of His quiver
To pierce my [d]loins.
14 I have become the (J)ridicule of all my people—
(K)Their taunting song all the day.
15 (L)He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth (M)with gravel,
And [e]covered me with ashes.
17 You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten [f]prosperity.
18 (N)And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.”
19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
(O)The wormwood and the [g]gall.
20 My soul still remembers
And [h]sinks within me.
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- Lamentations 3:5 hardship or weariness
- Lamentations 3:10 Lit. secret places
- Lamentations 3:13 Lit. sons of
- Lamentations 3:13 Lit. kidneys
- Lamentations 3:16 Lit. bent me down in
- Lamentations 3:17 Lit. good
- Lamentations 3:19 bitterness
- Lamentations 3:20 Lit. bowed down
Isaiah 38:13
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13 I have considered until morning—
Like a lion,
So He breaks all my bones;
From day until night You make an end of me.
Psalm 88:15
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15 I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth;
I suffer Your terrors;
I am distraught.
Psalm 73:14
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14 For all day long I have been plagued,
And chastened every morning.
Job 19:6
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6 Know then that (A)God has wronged me,
And has surrounded me with His net.
Job 5:17
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17 “Behold,(A) happy is the man whom God corrects;
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Revelation 21:22
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The Glory of the New Jerusalem
22 (A)But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
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Revelation 1:8
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8 (A)“I am the Alpha and the Omega, [a]the Beginning and the End,” says the [b]Lord, (B)“who is and who was and who is to come, the (C)Almighty.”
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- Revelation 1:8 NU, M omit the Beginning and the End
- Revelation 1:8 NU, M Lord God
Job 11:7
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7 “Can(A) you search out the deep things of God?
Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?
Exodus 6:3
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3 (A)I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as (B)God Almighty, but by My name (C)Lord[a] I was not known to them.
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- Exodus 6:3 Heb. YHWH, traditionally Jehovah
Genesis 43:14
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14 And may God (A)Almighty (B)give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. (C)If I am bereaved, I am bereaved!”
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Genesis 17:1
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The Sign of the Covenant(A)
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord (B)appeared to Abram and said to him, (C)“I am [a]Almighty God; (D)walk before Me and be (E)blameless.
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- Genesis 17:1 Heb. El Shaddai
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