anymore. That’s who she was; Mara (“bitter”) is who she has become. And she is doubly bitter. Back in verse 13 she said, “it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.” There “bitter” referred to how she felt about what had happened. But in verse 20 it has more to do with the severity of the events themselves, especially the loss of her husband and her two sons: “the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.” She comes home full of bitter memories.