So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”
Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.