Maroth.

Ruth 1:20
"Do not call me Naomi, " she replied. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

waited carefully.

1 Samuel 4:13
When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road, watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.

Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.

Isaiah 59:9-11
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloom. . . .

Jeremiah 8:15
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Jeremiah 14:19
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

but.

Micah 1:9
For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Amos 3:6
If a trumpet sounds in a city, will the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?