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Ruth 1:20-22
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
Ruth 1:20-22
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
20 But she said to them: Call me not Noemi, (that is, beautiful,) but call me Mara, (that is, bitter,) for the Almighty hath quite filled me with bitterness.
21 I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then do you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled and the Almighty hath afflicted?
22 So Noemi came with Ruth the Moabitess her daughter in law, from the land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the beginning of the barley harvest.
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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
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