And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? (A)Am I not more to you than ten sons?”

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15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, (A)who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

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14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish (A)the idle,[a] (B)encourage the fainthearted, (C)help the weak, (D)be patient with them all.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 5:14 Or disorderly, or undisciplined

15 Jesus said to her, (A)“Woman, why are you weeping? (B)Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be (C)the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

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13 They said to her, (A)“Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, (B)“They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”

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(A)For the Lord has called you
    like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,
like a wife of youth when she is cast off,
    says your God.

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The Eternal Covenant of Peace

54 (A)“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;
    break forth into singing and cry aloud,
    you who have not been in labor!
For the children of (B)the desolate one (C)will be more
    than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.

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Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the lyre,
    O God, my God.

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14 “He who (A)withholds[a] kindness from a (B)friend
    forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:14 Syriac, Vulgate (compare Targum); the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

12 And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know (A)the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword (B)and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”

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16 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David (A)fasted and went in (B)and lay all night on the ground. 17 And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

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