Bible Verse of the Day for November 8, 2026

The verses beside it

Ruth 2:10. At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”

Ruth 2:11. Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

Ruth 2:12. May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”

Ruth 2:13. “My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

Ruth 2:14. At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

Where this verse sits

Ruth 2 finds Ruth gleaning in the field of Boaz, a relative of Naomi’s dead husband, in Bethlehem at barley harvest. She asks why he has noticed a foreigner. He answers with what he knows of her loyalty to Naomi and her journey from Moab. Verse 12 is his prayer. Ruth answers with gratitude that he has comforted a maidservant who is not like his servant girls, and he invites her to the meal. Read verses 8 through 16. The wings of refuge are named in a conversation between a landowner and a widow who is not from the town.

Reflection

Boaz speaks this blessing over a Moabite widow who has been gleaning behind his harvesters. He has heard what she did for Naomi: she left father, mother, and homeland for a people she did not know. His prayer asks the Lord, the God of Israel, to repay her work and to give a full reward, and he names the shelter she has already chosen — “under whose wings you have taken refuge.” Ruth is not rewarded for charm. She is recognized for loyalty that cost her a country. The wings are the Lord’s, and Boaz, who has the power to protect a foreign gleaner, places her safety there rather than in his own importance.

A prayer from this verse

“Spread Your wings, LORD, over the person who has left what they knew in order to be faithful. Repay the hidden work I overlook, especially the care given by someone far from home. Make me a Boaz in the field I control, quick to bless and slow to treat a foreigner as a problem. Amen.”

One action: Speak a specific blessing today to someone whose faithful, costly care has gone mostly unseen — and, if you can, make the blessing practical with food, pay, or protection.