Ruth 1:13

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; it is far more bitter for me than for you that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at your father's house till Shelah my [youngest] son is grown; for he thought, Lest perhaps [if Shelah should marry her] he would die also, as his brothers did. So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Job 19:21

Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

Psalm 38:2

For Your arrows have sunk into me and stick fast, and Your hand has come down upon me and pressed me sorely.

Deuteronomy 2:15

Moreover the hand of the Lord was against them to exterminate them from the midst of the camp, until they were all gone.

Judges 2:15

Whenever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn to them; and they were bitterly distressed. [Lev. 26:14-46.]

Ruth 1:12

Turn back, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband tonight and should bear sons,

Ruth 1:14

Then they wept aloud again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law [good-bye], but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:21

I went out full, but the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

1 Samuel 5:11

So they sent and assembled all the lords of the Philistines and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel; let it return to its own place, that it may not slay us and our people. For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.