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16 Don’t consider your maid servant a worthless woman. Rather, all this time I’ve been speaking because I’m very anxious and distressed.”

17 “Go in peace,” Eli answered. “May the God of Israel grant the request you have asked of him.”

18 She said, “Let your servant[a] find favor in your eyes.” Then she[b] went on her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:18 Lit. maid servant
  2. 1 Samuel 1:18 Lit. Then the woman
  3. 1 Samuel 1:18 So LXX; The meaning of MT is uncertain.