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done for your mother-in-law since the death of me, ‘You shall stay close by my young men
your husband, and how you have left your until they have finished all my harvest.’ ”
father and your mother and the land of your 22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-
birth, and have come to a people whom you law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out
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did not know before. The LORD repay your with his young women, and that people do not
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work, and a full reward be given you by the meet you in any other field.” So she stayed
LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you close by the young women of Boaz, to glean
have come for refuge.” until the end of barley harvest and wheat har-
vest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.
Psalm 52:1–5
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of David
2:12 wings...refuge.Scripture pictures God as when Doeg the Edomite went and told Saul, and
catching Israel up on His wings in the Exodus said to him, “David has gone to the house of
(Ex. 19:4; Deut. 32:11). God is here portrayed as Ahimelech.”
a mother bird sheltering the young and fragile
with her wings (see Pss. 17:8; 36:7; 57:1; 61:4; W hy do you boast in evil,
63:7; 91:1,4). Boaz blessed Ruth in light of her O mighty man?
newfound commitment to and dependence The goodness of God endures
on the Lord. Later, he would become God’s continually.
answer to this prayer (see 3:9).

13 Then she said, “Let me find favor in your
sight, my lord; for you have comforted me, and 52:1 mighty man. A reference to Doeg, the
have spoken kindly to your maidservant, chief of Saul’s shepherds, who reported to
though I am not like one of your maidser- Saul that the priests of Nob had aided David
vants.” when he was a fugitive (see 1 Sam.22:9,18,19).
14 Now Boaz said to her at mealtime, “Come
here, and eat of the bread, and dip your piece
of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the 2 Your tongue devises destruction,
reapers, and he passed parched grain to her; Like a sharp razor, working
and she ate and was satisfied, and kept some deceitfully.
back. And when she rose up to glean, Boaz 3 You love evil more than good,
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commanded his young men, saying, “Let her Lying rather than speaking
glean even among the sheaves, and do not re- righteousness. Selah
proach her. Also let grain from the bundles 4 You love all devouring words,
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fall purposely for her; leave it that she may You deceitful tongue.
glean, and do not rebuke her.”
17 So she gleaned in the field until evening, 5 God shall likewise destroy
and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was you forever;
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about an ephah of barley. Then she took it up He shall take you away, and pluck you
and went into the city, and her mother-in-law out of your dwelling place,
saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out And uproot you from the land
and gave to her what she had kept back after of the living. Selah
she had been satisfied. Proverbs 15:4–5
19 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where
have you gleaned today? And where did you 4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life,
work? Blessed be the one who took notice of But perverseness in it breaks the
you.” spirit.
So she told her mother-in-law with whom 5 A fool despises his father’s instruction,
she had worked, and said, “The man’s name But he who receives correction
with whom I worked today is Boaz.” is prudent.
20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law,
“Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not for- Luke 19:28–48
saken His kindness to the living and the 28 When He had said this, He went on ahead,
dead!” And Naomi said to her, “This man is a going up to Jerusalem. And it came to pass,
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relation of ours, one of our close relatives.” when He drew near to Bethphage and
21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also said to Bethany, at the mountain called Olivet, that He

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