9. May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.’Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud
10. and said to her, ‘We will go back with you to your people.’
11. But Naomi said, ‘Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?
12. Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me – even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons –
13. would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!’
14. At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.