Ruth 1:13

Modern English Version

would you wait until they were grown? Would you refrain from getting married? No, my daughters. It is much more bitter for me than for you, for the hand of the Lord has turned against me.”

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow at your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, “He may die also, just as his brothers did.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Job 19:21

“Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me!

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was turned into the drought of summer.   Selah

Psalm 38:2

For Your arrows pierce me, and Your hand presses down on me.

Deuteronomy 2:15

For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among their midst, until they were gone.

Judges 2:15

Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them to bring disaster, as the Lord had said and as He had sworn to them. They were in great distress.

Ruth 1:12

Turn back, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. Even if I thought that there was still hope for me, that I could have a husband tonight and give birth to sons,

Ruth 1:14

Then they raised their voices and wept aloud once more. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:21

I was full when I left, but the Lord has caused me to return empty. Why should you call me Naomi when the Lord has opposed me? The Almighty has brought misfortune upon me!”

1 Samuel 5:11

So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to His own place that He might not kill me and my people,” for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.