21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.”

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And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? (A)Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

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23 (A)Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; (B)only, may the Lord establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.

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Even jackals offer the breast;
    they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
    like the ostriches in the wilderness.

The tongue of the nursing infant (A)sticks
    to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)the children beg for food,
    but no one gives to them.

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