Ruth 2:12

YHWH repays your work, and your reward is complete from YHWH, God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

In Context

11And Boaz answers and says to her, “It has been thoroughly declared to me all that you have done with your mother-in-law, after the death of your husband, and you leave your father, and your mother, and the land of your birth, and come to a people which you have not known before.

13And she says, “Let me find grace in your eyes, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken to the heart of your maidservant, and I am not as one of your maidservants.”

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Cross References

Ruth 1:16And Ruth says, “Do not urge me to leave you—to turn back from after you; for to where you go I go, and where you lodge I lodge; your people [is] my people, and your God my God.

1 Samuel 24:20And now, behold, I have known that you certainly reign, and the kingdom of Israel has stood in your hand;

Psalms 19:11Also—Your servant is warned by them, “In keeping them [is] a great reward.”

Psalms 57:1TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN HIS FLEEING FROM THE FACE OF SAUL INTO A CAVE. Favor me, O God, favor me, || For my soul is trusting in You, || And I trust in the shadow of Your wings, || Until the calamities pass over.

Psalms 61:4I sojourn in Your tent for all ages, || I trust in the secret place of Your wings. Selah.

Psalms 91:4He covers you over with His pinion, || And under His wings you trust, || His truth [is] a shield and buckler.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 2:5-17

The Kindness of Boaz to Ruth. ( b. c. 1312.) 4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you. And they answered him, The Lord bless thee. 5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? 6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: 7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and… Read the whole commentary →

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