1 Samuel 1:6

New Catholic Bible

⁶Her rival^[a] provoked her and made her miserable because the Lord had left her barren.

1 Samuel 1:6 Her rival: Hannah, because of her inability to have a child, was considered a failure in Old Testament thinking. It was also permissible for Elkanah to divorce his wife who was barren, but he remained faithful to her. Peninnah filled the role of a second or co-wife, in Hebrew, sara.

1 Samuel 1:7

New Catholic Bible

⁷This went on year after year. Whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she provoked her. This made her weep, and she refused to eat.

¹⁰She was greatly distressed and she prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly.^[a]

1 Samuel 1:10 Hannah showed her true colors by her faithfulness to the Lord. Rather than give up or complain about her fate she prayed in the midst of her great distress.