Ruth 1:13

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you would have to wait until they grew to become men before you could marry them. I cannot 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

Job 19:21

“Pity me, my friends, pity me, because God is against me.

Psalm 32:4

Every day you made life harder for me. I became like a dry land in the hot summertime. Selah

Judges 2:15

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

Psalm 38:2

You have hurt me. You punished me and hurt me deeply.

1 Samuel 5:11

The people of Ekron called all the Philistine rulers together and said to the rulers, “Send the Box of the God of Israel back home before it kills us and our people!” The people of Ekron were deathly afraid because God severely punished them there.

Deuteronomy 2:15

The Lord had opposed those men until they were all dead and gone from our camp.

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. So Tamar went back to her father’s home.

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,

Ruth 1:14

So again they cried very much. Then Orpah kissed Naomi goodbye, 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’? God All-Powerful has given much trouble to me.”