Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁰ Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.

²² For all His judgments [are] before me, And His statutes I turn not from me.

²³ And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

²⁴ And Jehovah doth return to me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, Over-against his eyes.

²⁵ With the kind Thou showest Thyself kind, With a perfect man showest Thyself perfect.

²⁶ With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

²⁷ For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

²⁸ For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

²⁹ For by Thee I run -- a troop! And by my God I leap a wall.

³⁰ God! perfect [is] His way, The saying of Jehovah is tried, A shield [is] He to all those trusting in Him.

⁸ And it cometh to pass, at the middle of the night, that the man trembleth, and turneth himself, and lo, a woman is lying at his feet.

⁹ And he saith, `Who [art] thou?' and she saith, `I [am] Ruth thy handmaid, and thou hast spread thy skirt over thy handmaid, for thou [art] a redeemer.'

¹⁰ And he saith, `Blessed [art] thou of Jehovah, my daughter; thou hast dealt more kindly at the latter end than at the beginning -- not to go after the young men, either poor or rich.

¹¹ And now, my daughter, fear not, all that thou sayest I do to thee, for all the gate of my people doth know that thou [art] a virtuous woman.

¹² And now, surely, true, that I [am] a redeemer, but also there is a redeemer nearer than I.

¹³ Lodge to night, and it hath been in the morning, if he doth redeem thee, well: he redeemeth; and if he delight not to redeem thee, then I have redeemed thee -- I; Jehovah liveth! lie down till the morning.'

¹⁴ And she lieth down at his feet till the morning, and riseth before one doth discern another; and he saith, `Let it not be known that the woman hath come into the floor.'

¹⁵ And he saith, `Give the covering which [is] on thee, and keep hold on it;' and she keepeth hold on it, and he measureth six [measures] of barley, and layeth [it] on her; and he goeth into the city.

¹⁶ And she cometh in unto her mother-in-law, and she saith, `Who [art] thou, my daughter?' and she declareth to her all that the man hath done to her.

¹⁷ And she saith, `These six [measures] of barley he hath given to me, for he said, Thou dost not go in empty unto thy mother-in-law.'

¹⁸ And she saith, `Sit still, my daughter, till thou dost know how the matter falleth, for the man doth not rest except he hath completed the matter to-day.'

³¹ When, therefore, he went forth, Jesus saith, `Now was the Son of Man glorified, and God was glorified in him;

³² if God was glorified in him, God also will glorify him in Himself; yea, immediately He will glorify him.

³³ `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say [it] now.

³⁴ `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

³⁵ in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'