12. While she continued to pray before Yahweh, Eli was observing her mouth.
13. Now Hannah had been speaking in her heart; her lips were moving, but her voice could not be heard, so Eli considered her to be drunk.
14. Then Eli said to her, “How long will you behave like someone who is drunk? Put away your wine!”
15. But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord. I am a woman deeply distressed, but I have not drunk wine or strong drink. Rather, I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.
16. Do not regard your female servant as worthless, but because of the extent of my worries and my provocation I have spoken all of this.”