For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hope
For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itse
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for bri
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ar
“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.