He taught me how to watch and
pray. Every day, happy day, happy day. Now open your Bibles with me
to the book of Ruth. The book of Ruth. While you're finding that. God's providence. So amazing. To me, at times in preparation
of messages, things that happen. Things that transpire during
the course of trying to prepare a message or thinking about it.
That. Give. A seal upon what I'm preach,
and this time was one of those times. I was trying to prepare
this message, struggling a little bit, trying to find the direction,
a general direction with which to take it, a general theme or
something to dwell upon. There's so much here. But while
preparing it, I was paid a visit by someone, someone dropped by study, and after we conversed
for a short while, the direction of this message was very clear
to me after that. So let's read the first eighteen
verses together. This will be our scripture reading
and introduction to this message. The first eighteen verses of
the book of Ruth. In the days when the judges ruled
that there was a famine in the land, a certain man of Bethlehem,
Judah, went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife
and his two sons. And the name of the man was Elimelech,
and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons
Malon and Chalion. Epiphytes of Bethlehem Judah,
and they came into the country of Moab and continued there.
In Limelech, Naomi's husband died, and she was left with her
two sons. And they, the two sons, took
them wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah,
and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelled there about
ten years. And Malan and Chalion died also,
both of them. And the woman, Naomi, was left
of her two sons and her husband. Then she arose with her daughter's
in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab. For
she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had
visited his people. in giving them bread. Therefore
she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law
with her. And they went on the way to return
unto the land of Judah. And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law,
Go, return each to her mother's house. The Lord deal kindly with
you as you have dealt with the dead and with me. The Lord grant
you that you may find rest each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them and they
lifted up their voice and wept. And they said unto her, surely
we will return with thee unto thy people. And Naomi said, Turn
again, my daughters, why will you go with me? Are there yet
any more sons in my womb that they may be your husbands? Turn
again, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have
a husband. If I should say I have hope,
if I should have a husband also tonight, and should also bear
sons, would you tarry for them till they were grown? Would you
stay for them from having husbands? Nay, my daughters, for it grieveth
me much for your sakes, that the hand of the Lord is gone
out against me." And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law,
kissed her goodbye, but Ruth clave unto her. And Naomi said unto Ruth, thy
sister-in-law is gone back unto her people and unto her gods. Return thou after thy sister-in-law."
And Ruth said, "'Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from
following after thee. For whither thou goest, I will
go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die,
and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more
also, if aught but death part thee and me." So when Naomi saw
that Ruth was steadfastly minded to go with her, Then she left,
speaking unto her. Remember that verse. That's a
key verse. Verse eighteen. When she saw,
when Naomi saw that Ruth was steadfastly minded to go with
her, then she left or quit speaking unto her. Let's ask the Lord's
blessings upon the message. Heavenly Father, we don't want to utter a word, don't
want to take a step, don't want to do anything without first
seeking your face, without first calling upon you to send your
Holy Spirit to be with us. Lord, we're so Insufficient this task of worshiping. No man or woman in this place
tonight can rightly hear the word of the living God, except
your Holy Spirit dig their ears, open up their ears, open up their
heart and enable them to rightly hear it, receive it and understand
it and bring forth proof. That is the work of the Holy
Spirit. We can try as we may to listen intently and give our
utmost attention, but unless you take your word and do as
you've said and you're in your word, send it forth and make
it effectually accomplished that way until you send it. Unless
you do that, we listen in vain. We preach in vain. Lord, I ask
that you would open the ears of the hearers, that they may
hear. Hear the gospel, the blessed, glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ. May they hear the shepherd's
voice. May I hear that voice. Enable me, dear Lord, to preach
with unction from on high, with a certain sense of urgency and
fervency and zeal and sincerity as of God in the sight of God.
May I preach Christ tonight. Make this a good time, a time
of worship. May the name of Christ be exalted.
May the Good Shepherd call forth his sheep. In Christ's blessed
name we pray and are met together tonight. Amen. Now, we saw very clearly in the
first message, the first message Sunday morning in the book of
Ruth, we saw the almighty, sovereign purpose and power of God in bringing
all things to pass. God Almighty's sovereign purpose
and power is behind all things. He worketh all things according
to his eternal counsel and purpose. And we saw very clearly how God
does this for the fetching of a particular people. As in this
case, he fetched one particular elect Moabite maiden for the
ultimate end of setting forth or bringing forth his son into
this world from her lineage. We saw very clearly the Lord's
marvelous and mysterious hand in bringing forth one of these
daughters of Abraham to himself. Now, here's the story tonight.
Naomi hears the good news. Now, let me review with you a
little bit what we studied Sunday morning. Look back at chapter twenty-one
of Judges, just across the page there. In verse twenty-five of Judges
twenty-one, It says, In those days there was no king in Israel,
but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Now at this time, verse one of
chapter one of Ruth, this was the time when the judges ruled.
So at this time of our story, there was no king in Israel. But every man, there was no ruler,
there was no absolute monarch or ruler to lead or guide the
people, but judges ruled. And every man basically, though,
did that which was right in his own eyes, according to his own
interpretation of the law, if you will. What was right in his
own eyes. Now there was a man named Limelech
whom we just read about. He had a wife named Naomi. means
God is king. So this man knew something and
believe something about God being king. His wife's name was Naomi. Her name meant God is sweet.
And this man and this woman lived at a time when there was a king,
but now they were in a time of darkness. And they had two sons,
Malan and Chalion. So this family, Elimelech, Naomi,
and their two sons They left God's people in Judah. They left the place where God
had chosen for his people to dwell, to worship and so forth. They were disobedient and they
left and they suffered because of it. But they left the place
where God's people were and where God's glory dwelt in the tabernacle.
And then in the course of a few years, Elimelech died. And his
sons married two women. One's name was Orpah, the other
Ruth. And then the sons died. Malan
and Chalion died. So here we have it. Here's the
story. These three men, three heads
of their homes, died. Lemilek, Malan, and Chalion. And here we have left three Three
destitute women in a time of great darkness, a time of great
apostasy. Three widows, and there is nothing
more destitute back in these times than a woman who is a widow
who is left alone. Three widows left alone, destitute
and helpless. Whereupon, verse 6, Naomi heard
the middle part of verse 6. Naomi had heard in the country
of Moab how the Lord had visited his people, or that is, in Judah,
had visited his people and given them bread. And down in verse
22, it says, at this particular time, it was the beginning of
the barley harvest. So Naomi heard a good story. She heard good news from a far
country. At the time of the barley harvest,
she heard that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. So at a time of great apostasy,
wickedness, and godlessness, when every man did that which
was right in their own eyes, one poor widow heard the good
news. She heard that God had visited
his people. And this woman, though, she herself
was living in paganism, was living in idolatry, and in darkness.
She herself was living there. But in the time of harvest, she
hears the good news that the Lord had visited his people in
giving them bread. One woman heard this and left
to go to get that bread. One woman. Thousands of years later, Much
the same thing happened thousands of years later at a time when
there was no king in Israel. A time of great darkness, a time
of apostasy, a time of ungodliness, but it was a time of a great
harvest. The field was white with harvest.
The good news was heard again in Judah that the Lord had visited
his people in giving them Christ, the bread from heaven. Christ
came down, who was the bread from heaven, and a few people
heard it, a few elect people. Again, much later, two thousand
years later, in our own time, a time of great darkness, a time
of idolatry, a time of ungodliness and wickedness A time when every
man does that which is right in his own eyes, when people
say, we will not have this man reign over us, we will not have
any Lord, we will not have any God. There is no king in Israel,
even among the circumcision. Every man does that which is
right in his own eyes. Some chosen, destitute sinners
hear the gospel. They hear the good news concerning
Jesus Christ, the bread of life, who has come down from heaven. And it's the day of salvation.
Today is the day of salvation, and we're still hearing that
good news. The harvest is ripe, but the
laborers are few who tell this good news. Look at verse 6 again. It says that she heard this good
news from the country of Moab. Naomi heard in the country of
Moab. how the Lord had visited his
people. She heard the good news at a time when she was living
in idolatry, in compromise and carelessness. She could care
less about what was going on in Judah, about the worship of
God and so forth. She was living in a pagan land.
She was living with the enemies of the Lord, the Moabites. But
she didn't, apparently she was unconcerned. But she heard, she
heard And man, this is how man must hear the gospel. Man doesn't
first turn over a new leaf and come to God. Man doesn't make
a decision. Man isn't seeking after God by
nature. The way that salvation comes,
the way that the gospel comes, is God seeking his people. He's seeking them, and he comes
to them with the gospel. God brought her back to hear
the good news and God brings his people. He brings a man or
woman to the same point that he brought Naomi and Ruth to
a point of desperation, a point of guilt and then he brings the
gospel to them and it's the sweetest message they've ever heard. A man or woman must be brought
to this sense of desperation and guilt and realize what they
are before the gospel will mean anything to them at all. The
term Savior means that somebody's lost. And so we must be lost
before Savior means anything to us, right? Mercy only means
something to the guilty. Grace only means something to
those who don't have anything, to the beggars, to the needy.
And it's God Almighty that takes the initiative in this thing
of salvation, not the sinner. God Almighty is the one that
takes the initiative. It says here that God, the Lord,
had visited his people in giving them bread. Doesn't it? It says
the Lord visited his people. Not in response to men. God doesn't
do things in response to men, wait around and see what they're
going to do. No, God moves and then people respond to him. God
never reacts to anything. No, men do the reacting. God
acts and men and women react. God says, I'll work and who shall
let it. I've purposed it, it'll be done.
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning. God Almighty
takes the initiative in salvation every time. Not the man, not
the woman. And God doesn't move in response
to men, but he moves in his own good time. And salvation doesn't
come to us in our own good time, like who was it? A grip of the
gripper that said, come back, and when I have a more convenient
season, I'll hear that. No, God doesn't move when we
have a convenient time. God moves in his own good time,
in his own good time, in God's good time. It's not when you
and I decide to accept God. It's when God Almighty decides
to accept us. God's not up for acceptance or
rejection. We are the, we're the ones on
trial, not God. So it's not when we come to the
altar, not when we come to God, it's when he comes to us. That's
where salvation begins, when God Almighty pays a visit to
man, not vice versa. Man's dead. He's just like Lazarus
in that tomb. And the only way he's going to
have, he or she's going to have life is when the Lord of life
comes. And he said, that's the reason
I came, not to show them how to live, but I'm come that they
might have life. I'm come to call the dead to
life, and he does that by the gospel. All right, when is a
man saved? When is a woman saved? When they
decide, when they get good and ready, when they are pleased. And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law
is gone back unto her people and unto her gods. Return after
your sister-in-law. And Ruth said, Entreat me not
to leave thee. or to return from following after thee. For whither
thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy
people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest
will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me,
and more also ought but death part thee and me." And when Naomi
saw that Ruth was steadfastly minded to go with her, then she
left speaking unto her. Now you remember me bringing
that to your attention before. This is important. Ruth was steadfastly
minded. Now, this is a picture. This
is a picture of two people, one, a true believer and one, a religious
professor. This is a picture of a true believer,
a possessor of God's regenerating work and a mere professor of
it. Orpah is a picture of one who
is merely under the illuminating spirit of God Almighty, or under
the influence of it. Let me read this to you from
Hebrews chapter 6. I know you've read this before.
Orpah was under the influence of the work of the Holy Spirit,
but she was without true regeneration. She didn't have a true work of
it in her heart. Now listen, this is vital. May
the Lord cast out every influence. Hebrews 6 says this, "'It is
impossible for those who were once enlightened,' that is, they
heard the gospel, and have tasted or dabbled in the heavenly gift,
and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,' or that is, they
participated in all of those things that the Holy Ghost shed
abroad on his people in the congregation, have tasted the good word of
God, they got a little liking of it and they enjoyed and the
powers of the world to come, and they had some affection,
some desires toward it, if they shall fall away, it's impossible
to renew them again to repentance. And Orpah is a picture of that
kind of person, a picture of how someone can have religious
affections and start out well, but only to apostatize and go
back to their gods. People generally, when they leave
the gospel, they go back to their gods, they go back to their former
religion. Once having heard the gospel,
and may be interested in it for a while, they go back to their
former religion. John said, proving that they
were never of us, or no doubt they would have continued with
us, just like the disciples who left the Lord, and the Lord turned
to the ones who remained and said, Are you going to go, too?
There's a door, and they said, To whom shall we go? You have the words of life. We
were in death. We were in darkness. We were
in idolatry. We were worshiping a God of our
own imagination. We were worshiping a God that
some preacher told us about, and now we've heard about the
God of the Bible. We've heard about the Christ of the Scripture.
Where are we going to go? This is life. We've found life. And most people, upon hearing
the gospel, have generally been hearing other things and been
unsatisfied with what they were hearing, and not even sure what
they're not hearing. And upon hearing the gospel,
they hear what they were missing, and might not even be able to
articulate it or put it into words what it is that they finally
heard, but they know they heard it. I told you the story about
Mindy's father. that he was going to a so-called
Christian church, and he told the preacher, and the Lord began
to deal with him. The Lord can take one word out of his mouth.
It's not the vessel. It's not the man. It's not the preacher.
It's God's word. This is his power. God can take
one word in season and bring it home to the heart of one of
his sheep and spark an interest. And they don't know what they
need, but they know they need something. Really. They're not sure what they need,
but they know they need something. Went to her preacher one day
and he said, I don't know what I'm not hearing, but I know there's
something I'm not hearing. He said, I need to hear something,
whether it's hellfire and damnation or just something, I need to
hear something. I'm not hearing something. And so the preacher
wept and said, he was the biggest giver in the congregation, by
the way. And the preacher wept and said, you come back Sunday
now, don't leave yet. If you come back Sunday, I'll
preach you something. Oh, that's a hireling for you,
isn't it? Well, he didn't, and Ed said that he preached, you
know, fair. He didn't know what was good
and what was bad at the time. But it drifted back into the
same old thing, you know, a pretty little sermonette about, you
know, this and that and the other. And finally he left, and one
of the men, where he now presently goes and hears the gospel, one
of the men that was there invited him to come hear the message,
the gospel, and Ed came. And he didn't know what he was
hearing, but he knew he was hearing something. And he sat, and he
sat, and the pastor said that he remembers looking back at
his face, and he'd sit there at times like this, with a frown
on his face, and kind of like that. And finally he said one
Sunday morning, He looked back at Ed's face and he had one of
those look like that. He said he met him and
greeted him back at the door as the service was over and Ed
said, I hear it. I hear it. This is what I've
been trying, been waiting on. This is what I've been missing.
I hear it. He said, well, come back tonight. Eddie said, I'll
be back tonight. I'll be back Wednesday night. I'll be back
next Sunday. I've heard it. I've heard it. Eddie's like that
person who finds that pearl of great price. No need to search
any longer. I found the pearl. One big one. You realize, you're looking for
all sorts of pearls. That fellow was looking for pearls,
wasn't he? Pearls? He didn't know one pearl to do.
He didn't know that Christ is all. He didn't need all these
other things. He needed one person. And he found it, and his search
was over. And if Christ becomes all to someone, then the preaching
of Christ is all to them. So upon Naomi's persistence,
Naomi was persistent with Orpah. Orpah turned back to her people
and to her gods. But Ruth, look at verse 18, was
steadfastly minded. Orpah apparently was double-minded,
right? Orpah apparently had her mind
on that back there, and with Naomi, she wasn't sure which
way she wanted to go, right? But Ruth was single-minded. She
was steadfastly minded. Her mind was stayed on one thing.
She saw one thing needed, and her affection was set on one
thing, and that was going with Naomi to Judah. And so it is. God Almighty will test every
one of his people's faith. He'll test every one of his people's
faith. A man, a woman's religion will
be tested as to whether or not it made her so. God made the
announcement of bread, and she came. No problem, is it? No problem. And God Almighty must create
in a man, in a woman, a need or else they're never going to
see their need. That's the reason there's myriads of people flying
by on Route 40 tonight having no apparent interest in the gospel
whatsoever. They haven't, they don't have
a need. They have other things they're pursuing and after. Why
are you here? Because you decided to? Because
God Almighty before the foundation of the world predestinated you'd
be here tonight and hear this message. Now I just hope you
hear it down here. It'll either add, now every time
you hear something, every time you hear this word, the gospel,
it'll either add to your condemnation or add to your salvation. It'll
be the saver of life, of life under life or death under death.
Didn't Paul say that? He always causes us to triumph
in Christ. Every time we preach, the word
of God is the saver of life under life, under those that hear it
by God's grace, or death under death. to those who hear it and
hear it. God decides. And every man, God
Almighty creates that need, that desire, and God Almighty creates
the remedy, and they come. That's the way it is with all
of God's people. Psalm 110, verse 3, one of my favorite passages
in all of Scripture. Psalm 110, verse 3, says, All
thy people shall be made willing in the day of thy power. All
God's people shall be made willing, as God doth worketh in us both
to do what? Both to what? Will and to do
of his good pleasure. Not of the will of the flesh,
not of the will of man, but born of God, as God doth worketh in
us both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Not of him
that willeth or him that runneth, but it is of God that showeth
mercy. That's the reason the song in
heaven is going to always be about him. Unto him that loved
us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. Not about Mama
who prayed me through. Not about me and my decision.
Not about the soul winner who jerked me down the aisle. But
unto him who did this great work from start to finish. Unto the
author and the finisher of our salvation. To him be all the
glory and the honor. and forever. By his great mercy
he saved it, by his grace. You can't save yourself, every one
of Or else you wouldn't cry out for a Savior. Right? Unless we're brought to the point
where we see we need a Savior, we're not going to cry on it,
Lord save me or I'll perish. And every woman and man and young
person whom God deals with, they're brought to themselves, they see
what they are, like the prodigal, that they cannot save themselves,
that they have no claims on God. They only thought, I have no
claims, I forfeited those rights. I have no right to go back there,
but if I stay, I'll perish. That we're guilty, and then every
person is shown their need of divine grace, and they're told
where it's found, they're told it's in Christ, and they come. Every last one of them. They
come to Christ. Back in our text, verse 7 says
this. It says that, and this is notable,
verse 7 says that she left the place where she was. That's significant. You don't
stay in your sin. God doesn't save a man in his
sins, he saves him from them. And the Lord doesn't leave a
man or a woman in self-righteousness and in false profession and all
that. Like Paul, the Apostle, once
they're saved, they count everything in the past but done. And they
forget those things which are behind and they press forward.
the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ.
They leave where they were, and they go to where Christ is. Now,
this is every word here, every word throughout God's word, but
every word in our text here is very significant, and every word
speaks of God's sovereign grace. Listen to it. We just read over
a short portion there. Listen to it again. Every word
speaks of God's sovereign electing grace. Look at verse 6 again.
It says, "...she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might
return from the country of Moab. For she had heard in the country
of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people and given them bread." Not the
Moabites, not the Hivites. not the Jebusites, not the Perizzites,
not the Habites, his people, and giving them bread. God visits his people and gives
them bread. God doesn't throw out man or
throw out Christ there for anybody to accept or reject as they will.
No, that's for them to trot underfoot to the Son of God. The blood
of Christ, the blood of that lamb in the Old Testament, the
high priest went in before the Holy of Holies. He didn't throw
it on the altar, did he? He poured it on that mercy seat.
And he had some names on his breast that he went into that
Holy of Holies. And those names were the ones
that he made the atonement for. And when Christ came down to
heaven, when that bread of God, the manna, Christ, who is that
bread, came down from heaven to earth. What did the angel
say? He said, We've got to name him
something. What are we going to name him?
We'll call his name Jesus. Why? He shall save everybody
that lets him, everybody the world over, his people from their
sins. Not call his name a hope-to-savior,
not a, I hope, I hope, I wish, I hope, if they'll let me save
you, call his name Jesus. It means Savior because that's
what he's going to do. He's going to save his people from their
sin. Folks, if Christ didn't save you, you don't have a Savior,
and you have no hope. But seeing then that we have
such hope, a sure hope, a good hope through grace, Paul A sure
hope, based upon our surety, we use great plainness of speech.
His name is Jesus, and that's what it means, a Savior. And
he saves his people. God has an elect people. You
say, why do you keep harping on this, Preacher? Well, God
harps on it from Genesis 1 all the way to Revelation 22. He
has an elect people. That's what it's all about, purpose.
God does everything on purpose. There's no accidents with God
or else he wouldn't be God. Anything out from under the divine
control and sovereign reign and rule of God Almighty, then that
means he's not God. I don't care if it's a particle
of dust in the sunlight. He controls all things. God works
all things after the counsel of his own will. He reigns in
the armies of heaven among the inhabitants of earth, and none
can stay his hand or say unto him, You can't do that. Yes,
I can. I'm God. I can and I do with
my own what I will. And everything he does is right
and holy and just and true. And God's people say amen to
it. Amen. And God has an elect people chosen
by him before the foundation of the world. Ephesians 1 says
that clearly, Romans 9 says that clearly. Given to Christ in a
covenant of grace, a covenant agreement that those people were
not around when this covenant was made. Only God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, they're the ones who
decided. They were the ones who took the officers to go down
and redeem them. And then Christ came down in
the form of a man. with an effectual, definite atonement,
the price that needed to be paid to pay for those people's redemption. He laid the price down and he
said to the Father, Now give me what's coming to me. Here's
the receipts, all my people. And someday it says in Hebrews
that he's going to present them to the Father and say, They're
all here. Behold, I and the children that thou hast given me. I and
the children, they're all here, not one of them missing. Not
the weak one down there because he couldn't make it. No, even
the weak one. Because I took my little lambs
on my shoulder and took them all the way to the throne of
heaven. I saved them. And by God's Holy Spirit, Christ
came down here and paid that price, and by God's Holy Spirit,
every one of these people that he paid that price for will hear
his voice and he brings them home to the house of bread. So Naomi here is a picture of
God's sovereign, effectual, distinguishing grace. One person. Oh, there's
another. There's another. As I said Sunday
morning, if God Almighty only elected one person, that would
be more than mercy, wouldn't it? Because all men of sin that come
short of the glory of God has nothing to do with good. Nobody
is deserving of God's salvation. Nobody deserves to be chosen.
Nobody deserves to be saved. Nobody can say that's not fair,
that's not right, because God doesn't save or choose these
people. The fact that he chooses one person is mercy. One person. And the fact that he chooses
a people as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore
is abundant mercy. Abundant. All right, now let's
look at the two daughters-in-law. Look at verse 7 with me. Two
daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth. Now this is good. Verse 7, Wherefore, Naomi went
forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law
with her, and they went on the way to return unto the land of
Judah. They, all three of them. Two daughters-in-law, one named
Orpah, one named Ruth. They went on the way They started
out to leave Moab with Naomi. Both young ladies appeared to
be in the way, going up to Judah. Both young ladies appeared to
be going up to Judah. Orpah wanted to go the same as
Ruth. She had an emotional experience,
didn't she? She wept twice, real tears, hugging
Naomi. She had some affection, and she
showed it. She wept. Look at verses, let's
read down through verse 15 again, verses 8 through 15. And Naomi
said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each to your mother's
house. The Lord deal kindly with you
as you've dealt with dead, or my sons and with me. The Lord
grant you that you may find rest, each of you, in the house of
your husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their
voice and wept, and they said unto her, No, we will return
with thee unto thy people, both of them, Orpah and Ruth. And
now when we said, Turn again, my daughters, turn back. Why
will you go with me? Are there yet any more sons in
my womb that you may They may be your husbands. Turn again,
my daughters. Go your way. I'm too old to have
a husband. If I should say I have hope,
if I should have a husband tonight and could bear sons, would you
tarry for them that they were brung? Would you stay for them
from having husbands? Would you wait around on these
boys to be grown? Nay, my daughters, it grieveth
me much for your sake that the hand of the Lord is gone out
against me." And they lifted up their voice and wept again.
And Orpha kissed her mother-in-law. But Ruth played on her. So he
won't shoot at us. So he won't shoot at us. He sees through the lights out
there in the woods. Yeah, what's my baby doing? Celebrating me when she stands on the home.