20. “Don’t call me Naomi,” she responded. “Instead, call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me.
21. I went away full, but the lord has brought me home empty. Why call me Naomi when the lord has caused me to suffer and the Almighty has sent such tragedy upon me?”
22. So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.