Ruth 1:13-17
Ruth 1:13
would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; for it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the Lord has come out against me.” Ruth’s Loyalty
Ruth 1:14
And they raised their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
Ruth 1:15
Then she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”
Ruth 1:16
But Ruth said, “Do not plead with me to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you sleep, I will sleep. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.
Ruth 1:17
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do so to me, and worse, if anything but death separates me from you.”