Ruth 1:13

Good News Translation

would you wait until they had grown up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that's impossible. The Lord has turned against me, and I feel very sorry for you.”

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Return to your father's house and remain a widow until my son Shelah grows up.” He said this because he was afraid that Shelah would be killed, as his brothers had been. So Tamar went back home.

Job 19:21

You are my friends! Take pity on me! The hand of God has struck me down.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night you punished me, Lord; my strength was completely drained, as moisture is dried up by the summer heat.

Psalm 38:2

You have wounded me with your arrows; you have struck me down.

Deuteronomy 2:15

The Lord kept on opposing them until he had destroyed them all.

Judges 2:15

Every time they would go into battle, the Lord was against them, just as he had said he would be. They were in great distress.

Ruth 1:12

Go back home, for I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and so got married tonight and had sons,

Ruth 1:14

Again they started crying. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye and went back home, but Ruth held on to her.

Ruth 1:21

When I left here, I had plenty, but the Lord has brought me back without a thing. Why call me Naomi when the Lord Almighty has condemned me and sent me trouble?”

1 Samuel 5:11

So again they sent for all the Philistine kings and said, “Send the Covenant Box of Israel back to its own place, so that it won't kill us and our families.” There was panic throughout the city because God was punishing them so severely.