Ruth 1:10
8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
9 May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
11 But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
12 Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
- KJV
- And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
- WEB
- They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”
- ASV
- And they said unto her, Nay, but we will return with thee unto thy people.
- DARBY
- And they said to her, We will certainly return with thee to thy people.
- BLB
- And they said to her, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
- ÅB
- og sa til henne: Nei, vi vil følge deg tilbake til ditt folk.
- OTB
- De svarte henne: “Vi vil gå tilbake med deg til ditt folk.”
- B1930
- og sa til henne: Nei, vi vil følge dig tilbake til ditt folk.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zechariah 8:23
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
Read in contextPsalms 119:63
I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
Read in contextPsalms 16:3
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
Read in context