hope, if I should have a husband also to-night, and should also bear sons: Would ye tarry for them ’till they were grown? Would ye 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 lift up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her. And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto here gods: return thou after