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Ruth 2:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘My lord,’ she said, ‘I have found favour with you, for you have comforted and encouraged your servant, although I am not like one of your female servants.’

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‘May your servant find favour with you,’  she replied. Then Hannah went on her way; she ate and no longer looked despondent.  ,


He became infatuated with Jacob’s daughter Dinah. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.


So Esau said, ‘What do you mean by this whole procession  I met? ’ ‘To find favour with you, my lord,’  he answered.


Do nothing out of selfish ambition  or conceit,  but in humility  consider others as more important  than yourselves.


The king said to Ziba, ‘All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours! ’ ‘I bow before you,’ Ziba said. ‘May I find favour with you, my lord the king! ’


She stood up, paid homage with her face to the ground,  and said, ‘Here I am, your servant, a slave to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.’


May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.’


Esau said, ‘Let me leave some of my people with you.’ But he replied, ‘Why do that? Please indulge me,  my lord.’


But Jacob said, ‘No, please! If I have found favour with you, take this gift from me. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God’s face, since you have accepted me.


The fear of the Lord is what wisdom teaches, and humility comes before honour.


Then her husband got up and followed her to speak kindly to her  and bring her back. He had his servant with him and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him to her father’s house, and when the girl’s father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.


May the Lord reward you for what you have done,  and may you receive a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.’


At mealtime Boaz told her, ‘Come over here and have some bread and dip it in the vinegar sauce.’ So she sat beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain. She ate and was satisfied and had some left over.


When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, ‘We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you #– #and he has four hundred men with him.’


In that day – this is the  Lord’s declaration – you will call me ‘my husband’ and no longer call me ‘my Baal’.





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