3. Do not multiply thyself speaking great and lofty things; let arrogant words cease from your mouth, for the Lord is the all-knowing God, and the magnificent works are his.
4. The bows of the mighty men have been broken, and the weak are girded with strength.
5. Those that were full have hired themselves out for bread, and those that were hungry ceased so that the barren has given birth to seven, and she that has many children is waxed feeble.
6. The Lord kills, and he gives life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.
7. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and lifts up.
8. He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he has set the world upon them.
9. He keeps the feet of his saints, and the wicked perish in darkness, for no man shall prevail by their own strength.
10. Lord, thine adversaries shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven he shall thunder upon them. The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give strength unto his king and exalt the horn of his anointed. {Heb. Messiah}
11. And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child ministered unto the Lord before Eli the priest.
12. But the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they did not know the Lord.
13. It was the priests’ custom with the people that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the flesh was being boiled, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
14. and he would strike it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot, and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest took for himself. Thus would they do in Shiloh to all the Israelites that went there.
15. Likewise, before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not take cooked flesh of thee, but raw.
16. And if the man would say unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat today and then take as much as thy soul desires, then he would answer him, No, but thou shalt give it to me now, and if not, I will take it by force.