Douay Rheims Original ↷
1 Samuel 1 📜 📕 ↷
6 Her adversary also afflicted her, and vexed her sore, in so much that she upbraided her, that our Lord had shut her matrice:📜💬📚
7 and so did she every year, when the time returned, that they went up to the temple of our Lord: and so she provoked her: moreover she wept, and took not meat.📜💬📚
8 Elcana therefore her husband said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? And why dost thou not eat? And wherefore dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I better to thee, than ten children?📜💬📚
Hannah Prays for a Son
9 And Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo. And Heli the Priest sitting upon a Stool before the posts of the house of our Lord,📜💬📚
10 whereas Anna had a heavy heart, she prayed to our Lord, weeping aboundantly,📜💬📚
11 and she vowed a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if regarding thou wilt behold the affliction of thy servant, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give unto thy servant a man child: I will give him to our Lord all the days of his life, & the razor shall not come upon his head.📜💬📚
12 And it came to pass, when she multiplied prayers before our Lord, that Heli observed her mouth.📜💬📚
13 Moreover Anna spake in her heart, and only her lips moved, and voice there was not heard at all. Heli therefore thought her to be drunk,📜💬📚
14 and said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? Digest a little the wine, wherewith thou art wet.📜💬📚
15 Anna answering, Not so, quoth she, my Lord: for I am an exceeding unhappy woman, and wine and whatsoever may inebriate, I have not drunk, but I have poured out my soul in the sight of our Lord.📜💬📚
16 Account not thy handmaid as one of the daughters of Belial: for of the multitude of my sorrow and heaviness have I spoken until this present.📜💬📚
17 Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel give thee thy petition, which thou hast asked him.📜💬📚
18 But she said: Would God thy handmaid may find grace in thine eyes. And the woman went on her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more changed otherwise.📜💬📚
Birth of Samuel
19 And they rose in the morning, and adored before our Lord: and they returned, & came into their house to Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: and our Lord remembered her.📜💬📚
20 And it came to pass after a certain compass of days, Anna conceived & bare a son, and called his name Samuel: because she asked him of our Lord.📜💬📚
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