she said to them, "Go back home and stay with your mothers. May the LORD be as good to you as you have been to me and to those who have died.

"May the LORD bless Boaz!" Naomi exclaimed. "The LORD always keeps his promises to the living and the dead." And she went on, "That man is a close relative of ours, one of those responsible for taking care of us."

"The LORD bless you," he said. "You are showing even greater family loyalty in what you are doing now than in what you did for your mother-in-law. You might have gone looking for a young man, either rich or poor, but you haven't.

Saul answered, "May the LORD bless you for being so kind to me!

How often does someone catch an enemy and then let him get away unharmed? The LORD bless you for what you have done to me today!

David said to her, "Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

Thank God for your good sense and for what you have done today in keeping me from the crime of murder and from taking my own revenge.

May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth!