Charles Spurgeon Commentary Ruth 1:21

"I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?" — Ruth 1:21 (ASV)

I went out full,—

Why, then, did you go out?

Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

Yet it is a sweet thing to be able to trace the hand of God in our affliction, for nothing can come from that hand towards one of his children but that which is good and right. If you will think of those hands of which the Lord says, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands, you may rest assured that nothing can come from those hands but what infinite wisdom directs, and infinite love has ordained.

And the LORD has brought me home again empty:

Ah! But he has brought you home again. Oh, if only she had noticed the mercy there was in it all, she might still have spoken like Naomi; but now she speaks like Mara—bitterness. Her husband and her two boys—all her heart's delight—were with her when she went out; and now that they are gone, she says—