“Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.”
Naomi expresses her conviction that God's hand is against her, that the Almighty has afflicted her with loss and emptiness to such a degree that even divine reversal seems impossible. This honest articulation of despair reflects a biblical spirituality that does not shy away from lament and the acknowledgment of genuine suffering. Yet the very statement of her conviction that God is her adversary sets up the ironic reversal when the reader comes to understand that God has been orchestrating redemption throughout her calamity.
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