Ruth 1:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

Psalm 32:4

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. Selah.

Psalm 38:2

For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

Deuteronomy 2:15

For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

Judges 2:15

Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

Ruth 1:12

Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,

Ruth 1:14

Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.

Ruth 1:21

I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

1 Samuel 5:11

So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.