4. The bows of the mighty are broken, but the stumbling are girded with strength.
5. Those full hire themselves for bread, but those starving hunger no more. Even the barren gives birth to seven, but she with many sons languishes.
6. Adonai causes death and makes alive, He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
7. Adonai makes poor and makes rich, He brings low and also lifts up.
8. He raises the helpless from the dust. He lifts the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with nobles, granting them a seat of honor. For the earth’s pillars are Adonai’s, and He has set the world on them.
9. He guards the steps of His godly ones, but the wicked are silenced in darkness. For one does not prevail by might.
10. Those who oppose Adonai will be shattered. He thunders against them in heaven. He judges the ends of the earth. He gives strength to His king, exalting the horn of His anointed one.”
11. Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, while the boy served Adonai before Eli the kohen.
12. Now Eli’s sons were worthless men; they did not acknowledge Adonai.