Ruth 1:13

New English Translation

surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me.For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the Lord is afflicting me!”

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought, “I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)

Psalm 38:2

For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.

Deuteronomy 2:15

Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

Judges 2:15

Whenever they went out to fight, the Lord did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.

Ruth 1:12

Go back home, my daughters! For I am too old to get married again.Even if I thought that there was hope that I could get married tonight and conceive sons,

Ruth 1:14

Again they wept loudly. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to her.

Ruth 1:21

I left here full, but the Lord has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me ‘Naomi,’ seeing that the Lord has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?”

1 Samuel 5:11

So they assembled all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us and our people!” The terror of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there.