Ruth 1:13

New American Bible - revised edition

would you wait for them and deprive yourselves of husbands until those sons grew up? No, my daughters, my lot is too bitter for you, because the Lord has extended his hand against me.”

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”—for he feared that Shelah also might die like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Job 19:21

Pity me, pity me, 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 withered as in dry summer heat. Selah

Psalm 38:2

Lord, do not punish me in your anger; in your wrath do not chastise me!

Deuteronomy 2:15

Indeed the Lord’s own hand was against them, to rout them from the camp completely. Along Ammon.

Judges 2:15

Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord turned against them, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn to them; and they were in great distress.

Ruth 1:12

Go, my daughters, for I am too old to marry again. Even if I had any such hope, or if tonight I had a husband and were to bear sons,

Ruth 1:14

Again they wept aloud; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 1:21

I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why should you call me ‘Sweet,’ since the Lord has brought me to trial, and the Almighty has pronounced evil sentence on me.”

1 Samuel 5:11

Then they, too, sent a summons to all the Philistine leaders and pleaded: “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. Send it back to its place so it does not kill us and our kindred.” A deadly panic had seized the whole city, since the hand of God lay heavy upon it.