Ruth 1:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying?  No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share,  because the Lord’s hand has turned against me.’

Cross References

Job 19:21

Have mercy on me, my friends,  have mercy, for God’s hand  has struck me.

Judges 2:15

Whenever the Israelites went out, the Lord was against them  and brought disaster on them, just as he had promised and sworn to them.  So they suffered greatly.

1 Samuel 5:11

The Ekronites called all the Philistine rulers together.  They said, ‘Send the ark of Israel’s God away. Let it return to its place so it won’t kill us and our people! ’  For the fear of death pervaded the city; God’s hand was oppressing them.

Deuteronomy 2:15

Indeed, the Lord’s hand was against them, to eliminate  them from the camp until they had all perished.

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, ‘Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.’  For he thought, ‘He might die too, like his brothers.’ So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Ruth 1:12

Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

Ruth 1:14

Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:21

I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty.  Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has opposed  me, and the Almighty has afflicted me? ’