He will make you alive again,
and care for you in your old age.
Your daughter-in-law made it happen.
She bore this child for you.
She loves you.
And she is better for you
than seven sons.”
My enemies are really smooth talkers;\par they talk about peace,\par but they are really planning wars.\par Their words are as slick as oil,\par but those words cut like a knife.\par
I carried you when you were born, and I will carry you when you become old. Your hair will become gray, and I will still carry you, because I made you. I will continue to carry you and I will save you.
Her husband, Elkanah, said to her, “Hannah, why are you crying? Why won’t you eat? Why are you sad? You have me—I am your husband. You should think I am better than ten sons.”
People who had plenty of food in the past
must now work to get food.
But people who were hungry in the past
now grow fat on food!
The woman who was not able
to have children
now has seven children!
But the woman who had many children
is sad because her children are gone.