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.
13. Now this was the custom of the kohanim with the people: whenever any man offered a sacrifice, the kohen’s servant would come along, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,