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Therefore a strong people will honor You. Cities of ruthless nations will fear You.
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For You have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against the wall.
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For the ruthless will come to an end and the scorner will be finished, and all watching to do evil cut off.
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Its collapse is like smashing a clay jar, so ruthlessly shattered that a shard will not be found among the pieces to take fire from the hearth or scoop water from the cistern.”
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“So I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the grasp of the ruthless.”
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Sharpened to slaughter ruthlessly! Polished so it will flash like lightning! Or should we rejoice? It is the rod, My son—despising every tree!
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behold, I will bring strangers against you, the ruthless of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your splendor.
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He and his people with him, the ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
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Ruthless barbarians from the nations cut it down. They cast it down on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell. Its branches have laid broken in all the streambeds of the land. All the people of the earth have come out from its shade and abandoned it.
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By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall. They are all ruthless among the nations. They will devastate the pride of Egypt. All of its multitude will be annihilated.
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I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a leafy tree in native soil.
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My God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the grasp of an evil, ruthless man.
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God, the proud have risen up against me and a gang of ruthless people have sought my life, and have not set You before them.
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Rewards for Righteous or Ruthless
A gracious woman gains honor, but ruthless men seize riches.
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or ‘Save me from the enemy’s hand’ or ‘Redeem me from a ruthless hand’?
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“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the inheritance that ruthless men receive from Shaddai.
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They married Moabite women—one was named Orpah and the second was named Ruth, and they dwelt there about ten years.
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Again they broke into loud weeping. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye. But Ruth clung to her.
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Ruth’s Covenant With Naomi
Ruth replied, “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
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When she saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she no longer spoke to Ruth about it.
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So Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess returned from the region of Moab. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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Ruth the Moabitess, said to Naomi, “Please let me go out to the field and glean grain behind anyone in whose eyes I may find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”
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So Ruth went out and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. She just so happened to be in the field of Boaz, who was from Elimelech’s family.
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Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen to me, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field or even pass on from here, but stay close to my female workers.
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She carried it back to town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Ruth took some out and gave her what was left over after eating her fill.