1 Samuel 2:1-10

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Hannah's Prayer

2 And Hannah prayed and said,

^(A)“My heart exults in the Lord;
^(B)my horn is exalted in the Lord.
My mouth derides my enemies,
because ^(C)I rejoice in your salvation.

²^(D)“There is none holy like the Lord:
    for there is none besides you;
    there is ^(E)no rock like our God.
³Talk no more so very proudly,
    let not arrogance come from your mouth;
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
    and by him actions are weighed.
⁴^(F)The bows of the mighty are broken,
    but the feeble bind on strength.
⁵Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
    but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
^(G)The barren has borne seven,
    ^(H)but she who has many children is forlorn.
⁶^(I)The Lord kills and brings to life;
    he brings down to Sheol and raises up.
⁷^(J)The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
    ^(K)he brings low and he exalts.
⁸^(L)He raises up the poor from the dust;
    he lifts the needy from the ash heap
^(M)to make them sit with princes
    and inherit a seat of honor.
^(N)For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's,
    and on them he has set the world.

⁹^(O)“He will guard the feet of his faithful ones,
    but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness,
    for not by might shall a man prevail.
¹⁰^(P)The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces;
    ^(Q)against them he will thunder in heaven.
^(R)The Lord will judge the ends of the earth;
    he will give strength to his king
    ^(S)and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

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Genesis 17:15-22

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Isaac's Birth Promised

¹⁵And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah^[a] shall be her name. ¹⁶I will bless her, and moreover, I will ^(A)give^[b] you a son by her. I will bless her, and ^(B)she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.” ¹⁷Then Abraham ^(C)fell on his face ^(D)and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” ¹⁸And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” ¹⁹God said, “No, but ^(E)Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name ^(F)Isaac.^[c] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. ²⁰As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and ^(G)multiply him greatly. He ^(H)shall father twelve princes, and ^(I)I will make him into a great nation. ²¹But ^(J)I will establish my covenant with Isaac, ^(K)whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.”

²²When he had finished talking with him, ^(L)God went up from Abraham.

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Footnotes

Genesis 17:15 Sarai and Sarah mean princess
Genesis 17:16 Hebrew have given
Genesis 17:19 Isaac means he laughs

Galatians 4:8-20

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Paul's Concern for the Galatians

⁸Formerly, when you ^(A)did not know God, you ^(B)were enslaved to those that by nature ^(C)are not gods. ⁹But now that you have come to know God, or rather ^(D)to be known by God, ^(E)how can you turn back again to ^(F)the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? ¹⁰^(G)You observe days and months and seasons and years! ¹¹I am afraid ^(H)I may have labored over you in vain.

¹²Brothers,^[a] ^(I)I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. ^(J)You did me no wrong. ¹³You know it was ^(K)because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you ^(L)at first, ¹⁴and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me ^(M)as an angel of God, ^(N)as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶Have I then become your enemy by ^(O)telling you the truth?^[b] ¹⁷They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. ¹⁸It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and ^(P)not only when I am present with you, ¹⁹^(Q)my little children, ^(R)for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ ^(S)is formed in you! ²⁰I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.