Ruth 1:21 · WEB
“I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"”
— Ruth 1:21
Speaker
Naomi
Era
Judges (~1200 BC)
Emotion
grieving
Type
dialogue
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
lossdivine sovereigntyemptiness
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