Ruth 1:16-20
Ruth 1:16
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.
Ruth 1:17
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!”
Ruth 1:18
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped telling Ruth to go home.
Ruth 1:19
So the two of them walked on until they reached Bethlehem. When they arrived there, the whole town got excited. “Is this Naomi?” the women asked.
Ruth 1:20
She said to them, “Don't call me Naomi! Call me Mara, for the Almighty has treated me very bitterly.