Ruth 1:13

Easy To Read Version

You would have to wait until they grew to become men before you could marry them. I can’t make you wait that long for husbands. That would make me very sad! {And I am already sad enough}—the Lord has done many things to me!”

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Go back to your father’s house. Stay there and don’t marry until my young son Shelah grows up.” Judah was afraid that Shelah would also be killed like his brothers. Tamar went back to her father’s home.

Job 19:21

“Pity me, my friends, pity me!\par Why? Because God is against me.\par

Psalm 32:4

God, you made life harder and harder on me, day and night.\par I became like a dry, dry land in the hot summertime.\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [199]})\i0 \par

Psalm 38:2

Lord, you have hurt me.\par Your arrows went deep into me.\par

Deuteronomy 2:15

The Lord was against those men until they were all dead and gone from our camp.

Judges 2:15

When the people of Israel went out to fight, they always lost. They lost because the Lord was not on their side. The Lord had already warned the people of Israel that they would lose if they served the gods of the people living around them. The people of Israel suffered very much.

Ruth 1:12

Go back home! I am too old to have a new husband. Even if I thought I could be married again, I could not help you. If I became pregnant tonight and had two sons, {it would not help}.

Ruth 1:14

So the women cried very much again. Then Orpah kissed Naomi {and left}. But Ruth hugged her {and stayed}.

Ruth 1:21

I had everything I wanted when I left. But now, the Lord brings me home with nothing. The Lord has made me sad, so why should you call me ‘Happy’? [6] {God} All-Powerful has given much trouble to me.”

1 Samuel 5:11

The people of Ekron called all the Philistine rulers together. The people of Ekron said to the rulers, “Send the Box of the God of Israel back to its place before it kills us and our people!”