Verse 21
Ruth 1:21
Literal Standard Version
21
I went out full, and YHWH has brought me back empty, why do you call me Naomi, and YHWH has testified against me, and the Almighty has done evil to me?”
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֲנִי֙ מְלֵאָ֣ה הָלַ֔כְתִּי וְ/רֵיקָ֖ם הֱשִׁיבַ֣/נִי יְהוָ֑ה לָ֣/מָּה תִקְרֶ֤אנָה לִ/י֙ נָעֳמִ֔י וַֽ/יהוָה֙ עָ֣נָה בִ֔/י וְ/שַׁדַּ֖י הֵ֥רַֽע לִֽ/י
English Translation
I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me?
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And it comes to pass, in the days when the ones judging judge, that there is a famine in the land, a...
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And the name of the man is Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons M...
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And Elimelech husband of Naomi dies, and she is left, she and her two sons;
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and they take to them wives, Moabitesses: the name of the first is Orpah, and the name of the second...
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And they die also, both of them—Mahlon and Chilion—and the woman is left of her two children and of...
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And she rises, she and her daughters-in-law, and turns back from the fields of Moab, for she has hea...
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And she goes out from the place where she has been, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they...
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And Naomi says to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return, each to the house of her mother; YHWH does...
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9
YHWH grants to you, and you find rest each in the house of her husband”; and she kisses them, and th...
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10
And they say to her, “Surely with you we go back to your people.”
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11
And Naomi says, “Turn back, my daughters; why do you go with me? Are there yet to me sons in my bowe...
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12
Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for m...
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do you wait for them until they grow up? Do you shut yourselves up for them, not to be to a husband?...
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14
And they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah kisses her mother-in-law, and Ruth has cleav...
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15
And she says, “Behold, your sister-in-law has turned back to her people, and to her god, turn back a...
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16
And Ruth says, “Do not urge me to leave you—to turn back from after you; for to where you go I go, a...
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17
Where you die I die, and there I am buried; thus does YHWH to me, and thus He adds—for death itself...
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18
And she sees that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceases to speak to her;
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19
and the two of them go until their coming to Beth-Lehem; and it comes to pass at their coming to Bet...
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20
And she says to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly...
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21
I went out full, and YHWH has brought me back empty, why do you call me Naomi, and YHWH has testifie...
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And Naomi turns back, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who has turned back fro...
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