Cross references
Ruth 1:21
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
Ruth 1:21 has 6 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Samuel 2:7–8 (8 votes) and Job 1:21 (8 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from Ruth 2 to Malachi 3.
Which verses does Ruth 1:21 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- 1 Samuel 2:7–88 votes
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- Job 1:218 votes
saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Job 13:264 votes
For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
- Job 16:84 votes
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
- Job 10:173 votes
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
- Malachi 3:5-1 votes
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Which verses point to Ruth 1:21?
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