31 Behold, (A)the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house. 32 Then (B)in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, (C)and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 33 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his[a] eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants[b] of your house shall die by the sword of men.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:33 Septuagint; Hebrew your; twice in this verse
  2. 1 Samuel 2:33 Hebrew increase
  3. 1 Samuel 2:33 Septuagint; Hebrew die as men

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