RUTH 1:20-21 So she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me,...
RUTH 1:16-17 But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die,...
RUTH 1:15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” Husbands are notorious for not asking directions. One wife said that her husband and she left a wedding to go to the reception. Not knowing how to find...
RUTH 1:14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. A number of years ago a new glue, characterized by an unusually strong holding power, was introduced on the market and sold under a variety of names. Advertisements for...
RUTH 1:11 But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?” When Egypt first conquered a land called Nubia, a regiment of soldiers was sent across the desert with an Arab guide. The...
RUTH 1:8 And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each to her mother’s house. The LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.” The great American novelist Henry James, in saying good-bye to his nephew Willie, said something the boy never...
RUTH 1:6 Then she arose with her daughters-in- law that she might return from the country of Moab for she had heard in the country of Moab that the Leno had visited His people by giving them bread. A Christian man took his eyes off God and committed a crime....
RUTH 1:3, 5 Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.Then both Mah/on and Chi/ion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband. A man took his elderly mother out to the cemetery to decorate graves for Memorial Day. After placing...
RUTH 1:2-4 The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mah/on and Chilion-Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained there. Then Efimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left,...
RUTH 1:1 Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. Desperation can drive us to...