Ruth 1:13

The Passion Translation

would you wait until they had grown up? Should you live for so many years without husbands? No, my daughters, you must not return with me. My life is too bitter for you to share it with me because Yahweh has brought calamity to my life!”

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my youngest son Shelah grows up.” So Tamar went home to her parents, but Judah worried that Shelah would end up dead like his brothers.

Psalm 32:4

The pain never let up, for your hand of conviction was heavy on my heart. My strength was sapped, my inner life dried up like a spiritual drought within my soul. Pause in his presence

Psalm 38:2

For the arrows of your conviction have pierced me deeply. Your blows have struck my soul and crushed me.

Judges 2:15

Every time they went into battle, Yahweh raised his hand against them to their undoing, just as he had warned them, and they were in great distress.

Ruth 1:12

Turn around my daughters and go back home, for I’m too old to marry again. Even if I thought there was still hope for me, and married today and gave birth to sons,

Ruth 1:14

When they heard Naomi’s words, Orpah and Ruth wailed and sobbed again. Then Orpah embraced and kissed her mother-in-law goodbye and went back home, but Ruth clung tightly to Naomi and refused to let go of her.

Ruth 1:21

When I left here, my heart was full and content with my family, but Yahweh has brought me back empty and destitute. Why call me by my name, ‘Pleasant,’ when Yahweh has opposed me, and Almighty God has brought me so much trouble?”