1Sa 2 | EngLXX | STEP | My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlargedover my enemies, I have rejoiced in your salvation.

‏ 1 Samuel 2

1 My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlargedover my enemies, I have rejoiced in your salvation. 2 For there is none holy as the Lord, and there is none righteous as our God; there is noneholy besides you. 3 Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding words come out of your mouth,for the Lordis a God of knowledge, and God prepares his own designs. 4 The bow of the mighty has waxed feeble, and the weak have girded themselves with strength. 5 They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; forthe barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble. 6 The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up. 7 The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up. 8 He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat himwith the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory: 9 granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, forby strength can’t man prevail. 10 The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lordis holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength,and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand andknow the Lord, and to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up tothe heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to ourkings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord, 11 and departed to Armathaim: and the child ministered in the presence of the Lord beforeHeli the priest. 12 And the sons of Heli the priestwere evil sons, not knowing the Lord. 13 And the priest's claim from every one of the people that sacrificedwas this: the servant of the priest came when the flesh was in seething, and a flesh-hook ofthree teethwas in his hand. 14 And he struck it into the great caldron, or into the brazen vessel, or into the pot,and whatever came up with the flesh-hook, the priest took for himself: so they did to all Israel thatcame to sacrifice to the Lord in Selom. 15 And before the fat was burnt for a sweet savor, the servant of the priest would come,and say to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and I will by no means take ofyou sodden flesh out of the caldron. 16 Andif the man that sacrificed said, First let the fat be burned, as it is fit, and take for yourselfof all things which your soul desires: then he would say, Nay, for you shall give it me now; and if notI will take it by force. 17 So the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for they set at nothing theoffering of the Lord. 18 And Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girded with a linen ephod. 19 And his mother made him a little doublet, and brought it to him from year to year, inher going up in company with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20 And Heli blessed Helcana and his wife, saying The Lord recompense to you seed of thiswoman, in return for the loan which you have lent to the Lord: and the man returned to his place. 21 And the Lord visited Anna, and she bore yet three sons, and two daughters. And the childSamuel grew before the Lord. 22 And Heliwas very old, and he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel. 23 And he said to them, Why do you⌃ according to this thing, which I hear from the mouthof all the people of the Lord? 24 Naymy sons, for the report which I hearis not good; do not so, for the reports which I hearare not good, so that the people do not serve God. 25 If a man should at all sin against another, then shall they pray for him to the Lord;but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of theirfather, because the Lord would by all means destroy them. 26 And the child Samuel advanced, and was in favor with God and with men. 27 And a man of God came to Heli, and said, Thus says the Lord, I plainly revealed myselfto the house of your father, when they were servants in Egypt to the house of Pharao. 28 And I chose the house of your father out of all the tribes of Israel to minister to mein the priest's office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and to wear an ephod. And I gave tothe house of your father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel for food. 29 And wherefore have you looked upon my incense-offering and my meat-offering with a shamelesseye, and have honored your sons above me, so that they should bless themselves with the first fruits ofevery sacrifice of Israel before me? 30 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, I said, Your house and the house of yourfather shall pass before me for ever: but now the Lord says, That be far from me; for I will only honorthem that honor me, and he that sets me at nothing shall be despised. 31 Behold, the days come when I will destroy your seed and the seed of your father's house. 32 And you shall not have an old man in my house for ever. 33 Andif I do not destroy a man of your from my altar,it shall be that his eyes may fail and his soul may perish; and every one that remains in yourhouse shall fall by the sword of men. 34 And this which shall come upon your two sons Ophni and Phinees shall be a sign to you;in one day they shall both die. 35 And I will raise up to myself a faithful priest, who shall do all that is in my heartand in my soul; and I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before my Christ for ever. 36 And it shall come to pass that he that survives in your house, shall come to do obeisancebefore him for a little piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of your priest's offices to eat bread.