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[1]And Hannah prayed, and said: my heart exulteth in 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, my horn is exalted in 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇; my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in Thy salvation.
[2]There is none holy as 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, for there is none beside Thee; neither is there any rock like our God.
[3]Multiply not exceeding proud talk; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; for 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.
[4]The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
[5]They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry have ceased; while the barren hath borne seven, she that had many children hath languished.
[6]𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 killeth, and maketh alive; He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
[7]𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 maketh poor, and maketh rich; He bringeth low, He also lifteth up.
[8]He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dung-hill, to make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory; for the pillars of the earth are 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇'S, and He hath set the world upon them.
[9]He will keep the feet of His holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail.
[10]They that strive with 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 shall be broken to pieces; against them will He thunder in heaven; 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 will judge the ends of the earth; and He will give strength unto His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed.
[11]And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 before Eli the priest.
[12]Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.
[13]And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his band;
[14]And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did unto all the Israelites that came thither in Shiloh.
[15]Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.'
[16]And if the man said unto him: 'Let the fat be made to smoke first of all, and then take as much as thy soul desireth'; then he would say: 'Nay, but thou shalt give it me now; and if not, I will take it by force.'
[17]And the sin of the young men was very great before 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇; for the men dealt contemptuously with the offering of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.
[18]But Samuel ministered before 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
[19]Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
[20]And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say: '𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 give thee seed of this woman for the loan which was lent to 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.' And they would go unto their own home.
[21]So 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 remembered Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.
[22]Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.
[23]And he said unto them: 'Why do ye such things? for I hear evil reports concerning you from all this people.
[24]Nay, my sons; for it is no good report which I hear 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇'S people do spread abroad.
[25]If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, who shall entreat for him?' But they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 would slay them.
[26]And the child Samuel grew on, and increased in favour both with 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and also with men.
[27]And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him: 'Thus saith 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇: Did I reveal Myself unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house?
[28]And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to go up unto Mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before Me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
[29]Wherefore kick ye at My sacrifice and at Mine offering, which I have commanded in My habitation; and honourest thy sons above Me, to m yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel My people?
[30]Therefore 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, the God of Israel, saith: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before Me for ever; but now 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 saith: Be it far from Me: for them that honour Me I will honour, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.
[31]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 thy house.
[32]And thou shalt behold a rival in My habitation, in all the good which shall be done to Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.
[33]Yet will I not cut off every man of thine from Mine altar, to make thine eyes to fail, and thy heart to languish; and all the increase of thy house shall die young men.
[34]And this shall be the sign unto thee, that which shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
[35]And I will raise Me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in My heart and in My mind; and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before Mine anointed for ever.
[36]And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say: Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.'
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