Then you will say in your heart: ‘Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; whence then have these come?’ ”
Ruth 1:5 - Revised Standard Version CI and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Mahlon and Chilion died also, both of them, so the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband. American Standard Version (1901) And Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband. Common English Bible But both of the sons, Mahlon and Chilion, also died. Only the woman was left, without her two children and without her husband. Catholic Public Domain Version And they both died, namely Mahlon and Chilion, and the woman was left alone, bereaved of her two children and her husband. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband. |
Then you will say in your heart: ‘Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; whence then have these come?’ ”
Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.
As he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her.
“ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years;
Then she started with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food.