Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from the LORD our God to worship the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.

"Don't call me Naomi," she answered; "call me Marah, because Almighty God has made my life bitter.

but when it is all over, she leaves you nothing but bitterness and pain.

So then, listen to what I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, will do: I will give my people bitter plants to eat and poison to drink.

"So then, this is what I, the LORD Almighty, say about the prophets of Jerusalem: I will give them bitter plants to eat and poison to drink, because they have spread ungodliness throughout the land."

He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.

The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.

You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights!

Do horses gallop on rocks? Does anyone plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison, and right into wrong.

Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.

Then they came to a place called Marah, but the water there was so bitter that they could not drink it. That is why it was named Marah.