1Samuel_02 Lyrics

2:1Hannah prayed, and said:

My heart exults in Yahweh;

My horn is exalted in Yahweh;

My mouth is enlarged over my enemies;

Because I rejoice in your salvation.

2:2There is none holy as Yahweh;

For there is none besides you,

Neither is there any rock like our God.

2:3Talk no more so exceeding proudly;

Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth;

For Yahweh is a God of knowledge,

By him actions are weighed.

2:4The bows of the mighty men are broken;

Those who stumbled are girded with strength.

2:5Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread;

Those who were hungry have ceased to hunger:

Yes, the barren has borne seven;

She who has many children languishes.

2:6Yahweh kills, and makes alive:

He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

2:7Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich:

He brings low, he also lifts up.

2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust,

He lifts up the needy from the dunghill,

To make them sit with princes,

Inherit the throne of glory:

For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's,

He has set the world on them.

2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones;

But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness;

For by strength shall no man prevail.

2:10Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces;

Against them will he thunder in the sky:

Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth;

He will give strength to his king,

Exalt the horn of his anointed.

2:11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest. 2:12Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh. 2:13The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand; 2:14and 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 in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. 2:15Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw. 2:16If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force. 2:17The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh. 2:18But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. 2:19Moreover 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. 2:20Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home. 2:21Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh. 2:22Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting. 2:23He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people. 2:24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey. 2:25If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them. 2:26The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men. 2:27There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house? 2:28and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? 2:29Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people? 2:30Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. 2:31Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house. 2:32You shall see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 2:33The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age. 2:34This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them. 2:35I 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 my anointed forever. 2:36It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.