THEOSISRuth 1:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
וַתֹּ֤אמֶר נָעֳמִי֙ לִשְׁתֵּ֣י כַלֹּתֶ֔יהָ לֵ֣כְנָה שֹּׁ֔בְנָה אִשָּׁ֖ה לְבֵ֣ית אִמָּ֑הּ יעשה יַ֣עַשׂ יְהוָ֤ה עִמָּכֶם֙ חֶ֔סֶד כַּאֲשֶׁ֧ר עֲשִׂיתֶ֛ם עִם־הַמֵּתִ֖ים וְעִמָּדִֽי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ruth 1:5And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.
- Ruth 2:20And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the same kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the dead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.
- Col 3:18Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.
- 2 Tim 1:16The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain:
- 2 Tim 1:18The Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day. And in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou very well knowest.
- Col 3:24Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.
- Eph 6:2Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise:
- Eph 6:3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest be long lived upon earth.