Ruth 1:13-17

would you wait for them to grow up? Would you decide you weren't going to marry anyone else? No. The whole situation is more bitter for me than it is for you, for the Lord has turned against me!”

They started crying loudly again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye. But Ruth held on tightly to Naomi.

“Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back home with her,” said Naomi.

But Ruth replied, “Please don't keep on telling me to leave you and go back. Where you go, I will go. Where you live, I will live. Your people will be my people. Your God will be my God.

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me harshly if I let anything but death separate us!”