Ruth 1:7-15

7So she left the place where she was, along with her two daughters-in-law, and they started out on the road to return to the land of Judah.

8So Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to your mother’s house. May Adonai show you the same kindness that you have shown to the dead and to me.

9May Adonai grant that you find rest, each of you in the house of her own husband.” Then she kissed them and they wept loudly.

10“No!” they said to her, “we will return with you to your people.”

11Now Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters! Why should you go with me? Do I have more sons in my womb who could become your husbands?

12Go home, my daughters! I am too old to have a husband. Even if I were to say that there was hope for me and I could get married tonight, and then bore sons,

13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you therefore hold off getting married? No, my daughters, it is more bitter for me than for you—for the hand of Adonai has gone out against me!”

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!”