Bible Cross References
Maroth
Ruth 1:20
And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
waited carefully
1 Samuel 4:13
And when he came, behold Eli was sitting on a seat by the wayside, watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and reported, all the city cried out.
Job 30:26
But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, then came darkness.
Isaiah 59:9-11
9
Therefore justice is far from us; nor does righteousness overtake us. We wait for daylight, but behold, the night; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.
11
We all roar like bears, and mourn with moaning like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, but behold, terror!
Jeremiah 14:19
Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us such that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for the time of healing, and behold, terror!
but
Micah 1:9
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 45:7
forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I, Jehovah, do all these things.
Amos 3:6
If a shofar is blown in a city, will the people not also tremble? If there is calamity in a city, will not even Jehovah have done it?