1 Samuel 1:6

Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand.”

I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

“ ‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you who don’t travail. For the desolate have more children than her who has a husband.”

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.

Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in Yahweh’s temple where God’s ark was,

So they sent God’s ark to Ekron. As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here to us, to kill us and our people.”

Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”