Ruth 1:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

would you wait for them to become old enough to marry? No, my daughters! Life is harder for me than it is for you, because the LORD has turned against me.”

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Judah did not want the same thing to happen to his son Shelah, and he told Tamar, “Go home to your father and live there as a widow until my son Shelah is grown up.” So Tamar went to live with her father.

Job 19:21

My friends, I beg you for pity! God has made me his target.

Psalm 32:4

Night and day your hand weighed heavily on me, and my strength was gone as in the summer heat.

Psalm 38:2

You shot me with your arrows, and you struck me with your hand.

Deuteronomy 2:15

The LORD kept getting rid of them until finally none of them were left.

Ruth 1:12

You must go back home, because I am too old to marry again. Even if I got married tonight and later had more sons,

Ruth 1:14

They cried again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth held on to her.

Ruth 1:21

I had everything when I left, but the LORD has brought me back with nothing. How can you still call me Naomi, when God has turned against me and made my life so hard?”

1 Samuel 5:11

The people of Ekron called for another meeting of the Philistine rulers and told them, “Send this chest back where it belongs. Then it won't kill us.” Everyone was in a panic, because God was causing a lot of people to die,