Ruth 1:9

May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

In Context

8Then 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.

10and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”

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Cross References

Genesis 29:11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

Genesis 45:15Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.

Acts 20:37They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:7-19

Naomi Returns to Canaan; Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law; Ruth's Constancy to Naomi. ( b. c. 1312.) 6 Then 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 in giving them bread. 7 Wherefore 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. 8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to… Read the whole commentary →

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