10. And they said to her, We will certainly return with thee to thy people.
11. And Naomi said, Return, my daughters: why will ye go with me? Are there yet sons in my womb, that they could be your husbands?
12. Return, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, should I even have a husband to-night, and should I also bear sons,
13. would ye wait on that account till they were grown? Would ye stay on that account from having husbands? No, my daughters, for I am in much more bitterness than you; for the hand of Jehovah is gone out against me.
14. And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave to her.
15. And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back to her people and to her gods: return after thy sister-in-law.
16. And Ruth said, Do not intreat me to leave thee, to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God
17. where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee!
18. And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
19. And they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they came to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, Is this Naomi?
20. And she said to them, Call me not Naomi--call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
21. I went out full, and Jehovah has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing Jehovah has brought me low, and the Almighty has afflicted me?