14. Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
15. Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the Lord.
16. Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”
17. Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”
18. She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.
19. They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the Lord, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.
20. When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the Lord.”
21. The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
22. But Hannah didn’t go up; for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and stay there forever.”