Ruth 1:8
Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the Lord show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
Note Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother’s house: Jehovah deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Go
- Joshua 24:15–28; Luke 14:25–33
- the Lord
- Philippians 4:18, 19; 2 Timothy 1:16–18
- the dead
- Ruth 1:5; Ruth 2:20; Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:2, 3; Colossians 3:18, 24