5. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread.Those who were hungry are satisfied.Yes, the barren has borne seven.She who has many children languishes.
6. “The Lord kills, and makes alive.He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
7. The Lord makes poor, and makes rich.He brings low, he also lifts up.
8. He raises up the poor out of the dust.He lifts up the needy from the dunghill,To make them sit with princes,and inherit the throne of glory.For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s.He has set the world on them.
9. He will keep the feet of his holy ones,but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness;for no man shall prevail by strength.
10. Those who strive with the Lord shall be broken to pieces.He will thunder against them in the sky.“The Lord will judge the ends of the earth.He will give strength to his king,and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
11. Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the Lord before Eli the priest.
12. Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the Lord.
13. The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
14. and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.
15. Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”