Now they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they arrived at Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. And why do you call me Naomi, seeing the Lord has humbled me and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

HETH. Their countenance has become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they have become as a stick.

But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it had no root it was withered up.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, urging [them] to continue in the faith, [saying], "Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God."

I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of you. Do not trust in them, though they shall speak fair [words] to you.

For the son dishonors his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house [shall be] all a man's enemies.

And you will be hated by all [people] for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

It is enough for a disciple that he become like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call his household members!

For I have come to 'turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law';

and 'a man's enemies [will be] his own household members.'

Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.

Father will be divided against a son and a son against father, a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

But just as then the [one] who was born according to the flesh persecuted the [one born] according to the Spirit, so it is also now.

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he leased his vineyard to keepers; everyone was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon [shall have] a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.