Ruth 1:20-22

Contemporary English Version

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?”

²² The barley harvest was just beginning when Naomi and Ruth, her Moabite daughter-in-law, arrived in Bethlehem.