...say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also to-night, and should also bear sons; 13 Would ye : ; @ 14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again ; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth elava...

...wife ; and then only do we hear this meek and pions mother in Israel revert to her heavy affliction. " It grieveth me much, for your sakes, that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me." She recognized the hand of the Lord, and met her individual sorrows not only with uncomplaining resignation,...

...sons ; Would you tarry for them while they were of age ? Would you be deferred for them from taking of husbands ? Nay, my daughters ; for it grieveth me...that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. And when she kissed them. Kisses was the ordinary salutation of the Jews at the meeting of acquaintance,...

...submits to them. In the same affecting strain she addresses them, " It grieveth me much for your eakes, that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. And they lifted up their voice, and wept again : and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but RUTH CLAVE UNTO HER."...

...should say ,1 have hope, if I should have an husband also to-night, and should also bear sons: would ye tarry for them 'till they were grown ? would ye stay...that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me; chap, i, 11—13. At first, these words sound to us very strange. We are ready to ask, Could Naomi...

...And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thce iinto thy people. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me. And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law;...

...she advised her daughters-in-law to return to their own people, and she added with great affection, " for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is against me." Like Jacob, poor Naomi was ready to say : " All these things are against me." (Gen. xlii....

...s;iy, I have hope, if 1 should have a husband also to tiight, and should also bear sons; 13 Would ye e society dmiirhters; for it grieveth me much'ibr your 15 Ami she said. Behold, thy sister in law is gone back...

...say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; '3 would ye thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon...Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ч And they lifted up their voice, and wept again : and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave...

...should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband aim to night, and should also bear sons ; would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay...that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me." Naomi tests the sincerity of her ilaughters in law. She had nothing of this world's wealth to offer...