Let that day’s morning star be dark.\par Let that night wait for the morning,\par but may that light never come.\par Don’t let it see the first rays of sunlight.\par
Don’t let your anger control you. And don’t let your body lead you to sin. {\cf2\super [43]} People do foolish things in the dawn of life while they are young.
Why? Because that man did not kill me\par while I was in my mother’s body.\par If he had killed me at that time,\par my mother would have been my grave,\par and I would never have been born.\par
Elkanah always gave an equal share [6] of the food to Hannah. Elkanah did this even though the Lord had not let Hannah have any children. Elkanah did this because Hannah was the wife he really loved.