What, my son? And what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows?
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.
And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou will indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but will give to thy handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to LORD all t
Therefore also I have granted him to LORD; as long as he lives he is granted to LORD. And he worshipped LORD there.
The words of king Lemuel, the oracle which his mother taught him.