White Space in Ruth's Choice

Before we start

How you render this one word determines the meaning of the whole paragraph. A translator has to decide, and the decision is already an interpretation. Readers deserve to know that a decision was made.（エノク書 99:6）

Anticipating the objection

Here is the conclusion, which is not an answer. I have decided to read this as a promise rather than a command, for the plain reason that I can live inside the first reading and not the second. Whether that is a legitimate reason I genuinely do not know.

26あなたがたは、じゅうぶん食べて飽き、 あなたがたに不思議なわざをなされた あなたがたの神、主のみ名をほめたたえる。 わが民は永遠にはずかしめられることがない。

ヨエル書 2:26（口語訳（日本語））

There are obvious objections, and I don't hold this reading with much confidence. What I would defend is narrower: that the text leaves room for it.（テトスへの手紙 2:9-14）

26わたしは、あなたと、あなたを産んだ母を、あなたがたの生れた国でない他の国に追いやる。あなたがたはそこで死ぬ。

エレミヤ書 22:26（口語訳（日本語））

Here is the conclusion, which is not an answer. I have decided to read this as a promise rather than a command, for the plain reason that I can live inside the first reading and not the second. Whether that is a legitimate reason I genuinely do not know.（士師記 20:28）

Now set it back into its own century. What was the community that first heard this actually worried about? Simply imagining that changes the temperature of every line.