Ruth 1

16 But Ruth replied:

Don’t plead with me to abandon you

or to return and not follow you.

For wherever you go, I will go,

and wherever you live, I will live;

your people will be my people,

and your God will be my God.

17 Where you die, I will die,

and there I will be buried.

May the Lord punish me,  * 1:17 1Sm 3:17; 2Sm 3:9,35; 1Kg 2:23; 2Kg 6:31

and do so severely,

if anything but death separates you and me.