Ruth 1:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹ They reached Bethlehem, and the whole town was excited to see them. The women who lived there asked, “Can this really be Naomi?”

²⁰ Then she told them, “Don't call me Naomi any longer! Call me Mara,^[a] because God has made my life bitter. ²¹ I had everything when I left, but the Lord has brought me back with nothing. How can you still call me Naomi, when God has turned against me and made my life so hard?”