Ruth 1:7-15

7She left the place where she had been living, accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, and traveled along the road leading back to the land of Judah.

8Naomi said to them, “Each of you go back to your mother’s home. May the Lord show kindness to you as you have shown to the dead and to me.

9May the Lord grant each of you rest in the house of a new husband.” She kissed them, and they wept loudly.

10They said to her, “We insist on returning with you to your people.”

11But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Am I able to have any more sons who could become your husbands?

12Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

13would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying? No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me.”

14Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

15Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. Follow your sister-in-law.”