Ruth 1:13

New Century Version

should you wait until they were grown into men? Should you live for so many years without husbands? Don’t do that, my daughters. My life is much too sad for you to share, because the Lord has been against me!”

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

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

Job 19:21

Pity me, my friends, pity me, because the hand of God has hit me.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night you punished me. My strength was gone as in the summer heat.Selah

Psalm 38:2

Your arrows have wounded me, and your hand has come down on me.

Deuteronomy 2:15

The Lord continued to work against them to remove them from the camp until they were all dead.

Judges 2:15

When the Israelites went out to fight, they always lost, because the Lord was not with them. The Lord had sworn to them this would happen. So the Israelites suffered very much.

Ruth 1:12

go back, my daughters, to your own homes. I am too old to have another husband. Even if I told myself, ‘I still have hope’ and had another husband tonight, and even if I had more sons,

Ruth 1:14

The women cried together out loud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law Naomi good-bye, but Ruth held on to her tightly.

Ruth 1:21

When I left, I had all I wanted, but now, the Lord has brought me home with nothing. Why should you call me Naomi when the Lord has spoken against me and the Almighty has given me so much trouble?”

1 Samuel 5:11

So they called all the kings of the Philistines together and said, “Send the Ark of the God of Israel back to its place before it kills us and our people!” All the people in the city were struck with terror because God was so hard on them there.