Ruth replied to Naomi,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will do everything you have told<n id="2" /> me<n id="3" /> to do.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will probably ask yourself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Why have these things happened to me?p> <p class="poetry">Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteressp> <p class="poetry">whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">It is because you have sinned so much.<n id="3" />p>

Now, my dear, don&#8217;t worry!<n id="1" /> I intend to do for you everything you propose,<n id="2" /> for everyone in the village<n id="3" /> knows that you are a worthy woman.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;How can you say, &#8216;I have not made myself unclean.p> <p class="poetry">I have not paid allegiance to<n id="1" /> the gods called Baal.&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Think about the things you have done there!p> <p class="poetry">You are like a flighty, young female camelp> <p class="poetry">that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">What will you say<n id="1" /> when the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> appoints as rulers over you those alliesp> <p class="poetry">that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Then anguish and agony will grip youp> <p class="poetry">like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.<n id="4" />p>