Ruth 1:14-22

14Again they broke into loud weeping. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye. But Ruth clung to her.

15She said, “Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Return, along with your sister-in-law!”

16Ruth replied, “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Adonai deal with me, and worse, if anything but death comes between me and you!”

18When she saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she no longer spoke to Ruth about it.

19So the two of them went on until they arrived in Bethlehem. As soon as they arrived in Bethlehem the whole city was excited because of them, and the women asked, “Is this Naomi?”

20“Do not call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara—since Shaddai has made my life bitter.

21I went away full, but Adonai has brought me back empty. Why should you call me Naomi, since Adonai has testified against me and Shaddai has brought calamity on me?”

22So Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess returned from the region of Moab. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.