²⁶ When I cut off your supply of bread,^(A) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

²² The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,^(A) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,^(B) with blight^(C) and mildew, which will plague^(D) you until you perish.^(E)

Naomi Loses Her Husband and Sons

1 In the days when the judges ruled,^[a](A) there was a famine in the land.^(B) So a man from Bethlehem in Judah,^(C) together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while^(D) in the country of Moab.^(E)