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.”
23. Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the Lord establish his word.”So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
24. When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one efah of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to the Lord’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.
25. They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
26. She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the Lord.