1 Samuel 1:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Regard not your handmaid as a wicked woman; for out of my great complaint and bitter provocation I have been speaking.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Don’t think your servant is some good-for-nothing woman. This whole time I’ve been praying out of my great worry and trouble!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You should not repute your handmaid as one of the daughters of Belial. For I have been speaking from the abundance of my sorrow and grief, even until now."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of Belial: for out of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now.

1 Samuel 1:16 Cross References

Psalm 55:2

Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan;

Deuteronomy 13:13

Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

Deuteronomy 13:14

then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee;

1 Samuel 1:15

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:17

Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

1 Samuel 10:27

But certain sons of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.

1 Samuel 25:25

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: hut I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.