8 He raises up the poor out of the dustand lifts up the oppressed from the dunghillto make them sit with princesand inherit a throne of glory. “For the pillars of the earth belong to the Lord,and He has set the world upon them.
9 He will guard the feet of His saints,but the wicked will be silent in darkness. “For by strength shall no man prevail.
10 The adversaries of the Lord will be broken to pieces;He will thunder against them out of heaven.The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. “He will give strength to His kingand exalt the horn of His anointed.”
11 Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.
12 Now the sons of Eli were corrupt. They did not know the Lord.
13 The priest’s custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the flesh was cooking with a three-pronged fork in his hand.
14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot, and all that the fork brought up the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the children of Israel who came there.