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14 Then Eli said to her, “How long will you behave like someone who is drunk? Put away your wine!” 15 But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord. I am a woman deeply distressed,[a] but I have not drunk wine or strong drink. Rather, I have poured out my soul before Yahweh. 16 Do not regard your female servant as worthless,[b] but because of the extent of my worries and my provocation I have spoken all of this.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:15 Literally “difficult of spirit”
  2. 1 Samuel 1:16 Literally “as a daughter of Belial/daughter of worthlessness”