6. You take away life,and you give life.You send people downto the world of the deadand bring them back again.
7. Our Lord, you are the onewho makes us rich or poor.You put some in high positionsand bring disgrace on others.
8. You lift the poor and homelessout of the rubbish dumpand give them places of honourin royal palaces.You set the world on foundations,and they belong to you.
9. You protect your loyal people,but everyone who is evilwill die in darkness.We cannot win a victoryby our own strength.
10. Our Lord, those who attack youwill be broken in pieceswhen you fight backwith thunder from heaven.You will judge the whole earthand give power and strengthto your chosen king.
11. Elkanah and Hannah went back home to Ramah, but the boy Samuel stayed to help Eli serve the Lord.
12-13. Eli's sons were priests, but they were dishonest and refused to obey the Lord. So, while people were boiling the meat from their sacrifices, these priests would send over a servant with a large, three-pronged fork.
14. The servant would stick the fork into the cooking pot, and whatever meat came out on the fork was taken back to the priests. That is how these two priests treated every Israelite who came to offer sacrifices in Shiloh.