New American Standard Bible

Ruth 1:12-15 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

12. Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,

13. would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; for it is harder for me than for you, for the hand of the Lord has gone forth against me."

14. And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

15. Then she said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law."