8 He lifts the poor from the dustand raises the needy from their misery.He makes them companions of princesand puts them in places of honour.The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord;on them he has built the world.
9 “He protects the lives of his faithful people,but the wicked disappear in darkness;a man does not triumph by his own strength.
10 The Lord's enemies will be destroyed;he will thunder against them from heaven.The Lord will judge the whole world;he will give power to his king,he will make his chosen king victorious.”
11 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah, but the boy Samuel stayed in Shiloh and served the Lord under the priest Eli.
12 The sons of Eli were scoundrels. They paid no attention to the Lord
13 or to the regulations concerning what the priests could demand from the people. Instead, when anyone was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged fork. While the meat was still cooking,
14 he would stick the fork into the cooking pot, and whatever the fork brought out belonged to the priest. All the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices were treated like this.