Ruth 1:11-13

International Standard Version

¹¹ But Naomi responded, “Go back, my daughters. Why go with me? Are there still sons to be born to me^[a] as future husbands for you? ¹² So go on back, my daughters! Be on your way! I’m too old to remarry.^[b] If I were to say that I’m hoping for a husband tonight and then also bore sons this very night,^{[c] 13} would you wait for them until they were grown? Would you refrain from marriage for them? No, my daughters! I’m more deeply grieved than you, because^[d] the Lord is working against me!”