The Story Of Ruth

Written by Allen Greggory

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.

Now Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. (Ruth 1:1-5 NIV)

Naomi laid on the ground and cried

Her husband and both her suns had dyed

She felt sew empty and sew alone

She new that she had too get back home

Naomi went two the girls and said

I’m sorry that you’re husbands are dead

Now eye must return too Bethlehem

And ewe both should stay and find knew men

Sew Orpah kissed Naomi good by

Butt Ruth looked Naomi inn the I

And said that is knot what eye will due

Deer mother this is my pledge two you

Wherever ewe go eye will follow

Wherever ewe stay eye will stay

Eye no that yours is the won true God

And eye want two walk with Him each day

The ladies came inn too Bethlehem

Just as the harvest season began

Sew Ruth went inn too the fields two glean

And that’s when God chose two intervene

With His help the lovely widow chose

A field owned bi her kinsman Boaz

She worked hard gleaning the hole day long

And softly she sang her special song

Wherever ewe go eye will follow

Wherever ewe stay eye will stay

Eye have learned about the won true God

And eye want two walk with Him each day

As harvest season came too a close

Naomi began two sea that Boaz

Was spending thyme with Ruth every day

Looking at her inn a special way

Naomi told Ruth that she was sure

That Boaz wood agree two redeem her

She donned her best close and sum perfume

And that night went two the threshing room

She laid at Boaz’ feat till he awoke

He asked who was their and then she spoke

She said deer kinsman this is my plea

I’m hoping that ewe will merry mi

Wherever ewe go eye will follow

Wherever ewe stay eye will stay

God has led mi hear inn two yore life

And eye want too bee with ewe each day

The next day they went two the town square

And announced too everybody their

They were going two bee man and wife

And sew they began there brand knew life

The moral as if ewe didn’t no

God leads ewe where He kneads ewe two go

And if ewe tri too due the write thing

Won day He mite bless ewe with a King

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive.

She gave birth to a son, and they named him Obed.

Salmon was the father of Boaz,

Boaz the father of Obed,

Obed the father of Jesse,

And Jesse the father of David (the ancestor of

Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God).

(Ruth 4:13, 17b, 21-22 NIV. (Postscript by Rev. David A. Howard).