And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are bitter of soul, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the distress of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

My soul loathes my life; I will leave behind my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted; I shall go slowly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

For Jehovah has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth, when you were rejected, says your God.

He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.

and call on Me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who had the power to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is on the other side of Jordan, and they mourned there with great and heavy lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

And the people came to the house of God, and remained there before God till evening, and lifted up their voices and wept with great weeping,

So it was, as soon as he had finished speaking, that behold the king's sons came, and they lifted up their voice and wept. Also the king and all his servants wept with a very great weeping.

Remember now, O Jehovah, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what was good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wailed with great weeping.

But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep and cry and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.

Weep not for the dead, nor moan for him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away. For he shall return no more, nor see his native land.