Rt 1:1In diēbus ūnīus jūdicis, quandō jūdicēs praeerant, facta est famēs in terrā.In the days of one judge, when the judges were ruling, a famine came about in the land. Rt 1:1Abiitque homō dē Bethlehem Jūda, ut peregrīnārētur in regiōne Moabītide cum uxōre suā ac duōbus līberīs.And a man went away from Bethlehem of Judah, to sojourn in the region of Moab with his wife and two children. Rt 1:2Ipse vocābātur Elimelech, et uxor ejus Noëmi: et duo fīliī, alter Mahalon, et alter Chelion, Ephrathaeī dē Bethlehem Jūda.He was called Elimelech, and his wife Naomi: and the two sons, one Mahlon, and the other Chilion, Ephrathites from Bethlehem of Judah. Rt 1:2Ingressīque regiōnem Moabītidem, morābantur ibi.And having entered the region of Moab, they were staying there. Rt 1:3Et mortuus est Elimelech marītus Noëmi: remānsitque ipsa cum fīliīs.And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died: and she remained with her sons. Rt 1:4Quī accēpērunt uxōrēs Moabitidas, quārum ūna vocābātur Orpha, altera vērō Ruth.They took Moabite wives, of whom one was called Orpah, but the other Ruth. Rt 1:4Mānsēruntque ibi decem annīs, et ambō mortuī sunt, Mahalon vidēlicet et Chelion: remānsitque mulier orbāta duōbus līberīs ac marītō.And they stayed there for ten years, and both died, namely Mahlon and Chilion: and the woman remained, bereaved of her two children and her husband.
Rt 1:6Et surrēxit ut in patriam pergeret cum utrāque nurū suā dē regiōne Moabītide: audierat enim quod respexisset Dominus populum suum, et dedisset eīs ēscās.And she rose to go into her homeland with both her daughters-in-law from the region of Moab: for she had heard that the Lord had looked upon his people, and had given them food. Rt 1:7Ēgressa est itaque dē locō peregrīnātiōnis suae, cum utrāque nurū: et jam in viā revertendī posita in terram Jūda, dīxit ad eās: Īte in domum mātris vestrae: faciat vōbīscum Dominus misericordiam, sīcut fēcistis cum mortuīs, et mēcum.So she went out from the place of her sojourning, with both daughters-in-law: and, already set on the road of returning into the land of Judah, she said to them: "Go into the house of your mother: may the Lord do mercy with you, just as you have done with the dead, and with me. Rt 1:9Det vōbīs invenīre requiem in domibus virōrum quōs sortītūrae estis.May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom you are going to obtain." Rt 1:9Et ōsculāta est eās.And she kissed them.
Rt 1:9Quae ēlevātā vōce flēre coepērunt, et dīcere: Tēcum pergēmus ad populum tuum.They, their voice raised, began to weep, and to say: "With you we will go to your people." Rt 1:11Quibus illa respondit: Revertiminī, fīliae meae, cūr venītis mēcum?To them she answered: "Turn back, my daughters, why do you come with me? Rt 1:11Num ultrā habeō fīliōs in uterō meō, ut virōs ex mē spērāre possītis?Do I have sons any more in my womb, that you can hope for husbands from me? Rt 1:12Revertiminī, fīliae meae, et abīte: jam enim senectūte cōnfecta sum, nec apta vinculō conjugālī: etiamsī possem hāc nocte concipere, et parere fīliōs, sī eōs expectāre velītis dōnec crēscant, et annōs pūbertātis impleant, ante eritis vetulae quam nūbātis.Turn back, my daughters, and go away: for I am now worn out with old age, nor fit for the marriage bond: even if I could conceive this night, and bear sons, if you were willing to wait for them until they grew, and completed the years of puberty, you would be old women before you married. Rt 1:13Nōlīte, quaesō, fīliae meae: quia vestra angustia magis mē premit, et ēgressa est manus Dominī contrā mē.Do not, I beg, my daughters: for your distress weighs on me more, and the hand of the Lord has gone out against me."
Rt 1:14Ēlevātā igitur vōce, rūrsum flēre coepērunt: Orpha ōsculāta est socrum, ac reversa est;So, their voice raised, they began again to weep: Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, and turned back; Rt 1:14Ruth adhaesit socruī suae: cui dīxit Noëmi: Ēn reversa est cognāta tua ad populum suum, et ad deōs suōs, vāde cum eā.Ruth clung to her mother-in-law: to whom Naomi said: "Look, your kinswoman has turned back to her people, and to her gods, go with her." Rt 1:16Quae respondit: Nē adversēris mihi ut relinquam tē et abeam: quōcumque enim perrēxeris, pergam, et ubi morāta fueris, et ego pariter morābor.She answered: "Do not oppose me, that I should leave you and go away: for wherever you go, I will go, and where you stay, I too will stay likewise. Rt 1:16Populus tuus populus meus, et Deus tuus Deus meus.Your people my people, and your God my God. Rt 1:17Quae tē terra morientem suscēperit, in eā moriar: ibique locum accipiam sepultūrae.The land that receives you dying, in it I will die: and there I will receive a place of burial. Rt 1:17Haec mihi faciat Dominus, et haec addat, sī nōn sōla mors mē et tē sēparāverit.May the Lord do these things to me, and add these things, if anything but death alone separates me and you."
Rt 1:18Vidēns ergō Noëmi quod obstinātō animō Ruth dēcrēvisset sēcum pergere, adversārī nōluit, nec ad suōs ultrā reditum persuādēre: profectaeque sunt simul, et vēnērunt in Bethlehem.So Naomi, seeing that Ruth had decided with stubborn mind to go with her, would not oppose her, nor persuade her any more to return to her own people: and they set out together, and came into Bethlehem. Rt 1:19Quibus urbem ingressīs, vēlōx apud cūnctōs fāma percrēbruit: dīcēbantque mulierēs: Haec est illa Noëmi.When they had entered the city, a swift report spread among all: and the women were saying: "This is that Naomi." Rt 1:20Quibus ait: Nē vocētis mē Noëmi (id est, pulchram), sed vocāte mē Mara (id est, amāram), quia amāritūdine valdē replēvit mē Omnipotēns.To them she said: "Do not call me Naomi (that is, beautiful), but call me Mara (that is, bitter), because the Almighty has filled me greatly with bitterness. Rt 1:21Ēgressa sum plēna, et vacuam redūxit mē Dominus.I went out full, and the Lord has led me back empty. Rt 1:21Cūr ergō vocātis mē Noëmi, quam Dominus humiliāvit, et afflīxit Omnipotēns?Why then do you call me Naomi, whom the Lord has humbled, and the Almighty has afflicted?"
Rt 1:22Vēnit ergō Noëmi cum Ruth Moabītide nurū suā, dē terrā peregrīnātiōnis suae: ac reversa est in Bethlehem, quandō prīmum hordea metēbantur.So Naomi came with Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, from the land of her sojourning: and she returned into Bethlehem, when the barley was first being reaped.