¹⁵ He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

⁸ Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?

¹¹ And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

¹² And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

¹⁶ But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.

¹⁷ Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.

¹⁸ And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more.

¹¹ And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.

¹² The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.

²² Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

²⁴ There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

⁴ Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.