And Hannah prayed, and said,{HR}My heart rejoiceth in Jehovah,{HR}Mine horn is exalted in Jehovah:{HR}My mouth is enlarged over mine enemies;{HR}Because I rejoice in thy salvation.
There is none holy as Jehovah:{HR}For there is none beside thee:{HR}Neither is there any rock like our God.
Talk no more so exceeding proudly;{HR}Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth:{HR}For Jehovah is a God of knowledge,{HR}And by him actions are weighed.
The bows of the mighty men are broken,{HR}And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread;{HR}And they that were hungry ceased:{HR}So that the barren hath born seven:{HR}And she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive:{HR}He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich:{HR}He bringeth low, and lifteth up.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,{HR}And lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill,{HR}To set them among princes,{HR}And to make them inherit the throne of glory:{HR}For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s,{HR}And He hath set the world upon them.
He will keep the feet of his saints,{HR}And the wicked shall be silent in darkness;{HR}For by strength shall no man prevail.
The adversaries of Jehovah shall be broken to pieces;{HR}Out of heaven shall He thunder upon them:{HR}Jehovah shall judge the ends of the earth;{HR}And He shall give strength unto his king,{HR}And exalt the horn of His anointed.
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the boy ministered to Jehovah in the presence of Eli the priest.
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Jehovah.
And the priests’ custom with the people was, when any man sacrificed a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, when the flesh was cooked, with a flesh-hook of three prongs in his hand;
and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot; the priest took of it all that the flesh-hook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites that came there.
Even before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he will not accept sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
If the man said to him, They will immediately burn the fat entire, then take as thy soul desires; he would say to him, No, but thou shalt give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.
And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for men despised the offering of Jehovah.
And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, a boy girded with a linen ephod.
And his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to sacrifice the yearly sacrifice.
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Jehovah give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to Jehovah. And they went to their own home.
So Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before Jehovah.
Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and that they lay with the women that served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil deeds from all this people.
No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah’s people transgress.
If one man sin against another, God will judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, for Jehovah was minded to slay them.
But the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with Jehovah, and also with men.
And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded in my habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people.
Wherefore the Lord Jehovah of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house forever.
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind; and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed forever.
And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of thy house shall come to crouch to him for a small piece of silver and for a cake of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.