7. “יהוה makes poor and makes rich, He brings low and lifts up.
8. “He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the dunghill, to sit with princes, and make them inherit a throne of esteem. For the supports of the earth belong to יהוה, and He has set the world upon them.
9. “He guards the feet of His kind ones, but the wrong are silent in darkness, for man does not become mighty by power.
10. “Those who oppose יהוה are shattered, from the heavens He thunders against them. יהוה judges the ends of the earth, and gives strength to His sovereign, and exalts the horn of His anointed.”
11. And Elqanah went to his house at Ramah. But the youth served יהוה before Ěli the priest.
12. And the sons of Ěli were sons of Beliya‛al – they did not know יהוה.
13. And the ruling of the priests with the people was that when any man offered a slaughtering, the priest’s servant shall come with a three-pronged flesh-hook in his hand while the meat was cookling,
14. and shall thrust it into the basin, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. And the priest would take for himself all that the flesh-hook brought up. Thus they did in Shiloh to all the Yisra’ĕlites who came there.
15. Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who slaughtered, “Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he does not accept cooked meat from you, but raw.”
16. And if the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned up first, then take as much as your being desires,” he would then answer him, “No, but give it to me now. And if not, I shall take it by strength.”
17. And the sin of the young men was very great before יהוה, for the men despised the offering of יהוה.