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Scriptures:
Ruth 1:15-22
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to
leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay
I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I
will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so
severely, if anything but death separates you and me.” When Naomi realized that
Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
So the two women went on until they
came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred
because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
“Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them.
“Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went away
full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has
afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”
So Naomi returned from Moab
accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem
as the barley harvest was beginning.
Ruth 4:14,15
“Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you
without a kinsman-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! He will
renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who
loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
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