Douay Rheims Original ↷
1 Samuel 2 📜 📕 ↷
Hannah's Prayer of Thanksgiving
1 MY heart hath rejoiced in our Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is dilated upon mine enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.📜💬📚
2 There is none holy as our Lord is: for neither is there an other beside thee, and there is none so strong as our God.📜💬📚
3 Do not multiply to speak high things boasting, let old matters depart from your mouth: because our Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him cogitations are prepared.📜💬📚
4 The bow of the strong men is overcome, and the weak are girded with strength.📜💬📚
5 They that before were filled have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, until the barren woman bare very many: and she that had many children was weakened.📜💬📚
6 Our Lord mortifieth and quickeneth, bringeth down to hell and fetcheth back again.📜💬📚
7 Our Lord maketh poor and enricheth, humbleth and lifteth up.📜💬📚
8 He raiseth the needy man from the dust, and from the dung he lifteth up the poor: that he may sit with Princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are our Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world.📜💬📚
9 The feet of his Saints he will keep, and the impious shall be silent in darkness: because in his own force man shall not be strengthened.📜💬📚
10 Our Lord shall his adversaries fear: & upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: our Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, & shall give empire to his King, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.📜💬📚
11 And Elcana went into Ramatha, unto his house: but the child ministered in the sight of our Lord before the face of Heli the Priest.📜💬📚
Eli's Wicked Sons
12 Moreover the sons of Heli, were the sons of Belial, not knowing our Lord,📜💬📚
13 nor the office of Priests to the people: but whosoever had immolated a victim, the servant of the Priest came, whilst the flesh was in boiling, and had a flesh hook with three teeth in his hand,📜💬📚
14 and thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the pot, or into the pan: and all that the flesh hook brought up, the Priest took to himself. So did they to all Israel that came into Silo.📜💬📚
15 Yea before they burnt the fat, the servant of the Priest came, and said to him that immolated: Give me flesh, that I may boil it for the Priest: for I will not take flesh of thee sod, but raw.📜💬📚
16 And he that immolated said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to day according to the manner, and take unto thee how much soever thy soul desireth. Who answering said to him: Not so: for thou shalt give it now, or else I will take it away by force.📜💬📚
17 Therefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before our Lord: because men detracted from the sacrifice of our Lord.📜💬📚
18 But Samuel ministered before the face of our Lord: a child, girded with an ephod of linen.📜💬📚
19 And his mother made him a little tunic, which she brought upon the ordinary days, going up with her husband to immolate the solemn host.📜💬📚
20 And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: & he said to him: Our Lord render thee seed of this woman, for the usury that thou hast given our Lord. And they went into their place.📜💬📚
21 Our Lord therefore visited Anna, and she conceived, and bare three sons, and two daughters: and the child Samuel was magnified before our Lord.📜💬📚
22 And Heli was very old, and heard all things which his sons did to all Israel: & how they slept with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle:📜💬📚
23 and he said to them: Why do you these kind of things, which I hear, very naughty things, of all the people?📜💬📚
24 Do not so my sons: for it is not a good report, which I do hear, that you make the people of our Lord to transgress.📜💬📚
25 If man shall sin against man, God may be pacified toward him: but if a man shall sin against our Lord who shall pray for him? And they heard not the voice of their father, because our Lord would kill them.📜💬📚
26 But the child Samuel prospered, and grew, and pleased both our Lord and men.📜💬📚
A Prophecy against the House of Eli
27 And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him: Thus saith our Lord: Was not I openly revealed to thy father's house, when they were in AEgypt in the house of Pharao?📜💬📚
28 and I chose him of all the tribes of Israel for my Priest, that he might ascend to my altar, and burn to me incense, and might carry the ephod before me: and I gave to thy father's house all things of the sacrifices of the children of Israel.📜💬📚
29 Why have you with your heel rejected my victim, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and hast rather honoured thy sons than me, that you would eat the first fruits of every sacrifice of Israel my people?📜💬📚
30 Therefore said our Lord the God of Israel: Speaking I spake that thy house, and the house of thy father should minister in my sight for ever. But now saith our Lord: Be this far from me: but whosoever shall glorify me I will glorify him: and they that contemn me, shall be base.📜💬📚
31 Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there may not be an old man in thy house.📜💬📚
32 And thou shalt see whom thou enviest in the temple, in all prosperities of Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.📜💬📚
33 Notwithstanding I will not altogether take away a man of thee from mine altar: but that thine eyes may fail, and thy soul melt: and a great part of thy house shall die when it is come to man's age.📜💬📚
34 And this shall be a sign to thee, which shall come upon thy two sons, Ophni, and Phinees: In one day they shall both die.📜💬📚
35 And I will raise up unto me a faithful Priest, which shall do according to my heart, and my soul: and I will build him a faithful house and the same shall walk before my Christ all days.📜💬📚
36 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy house, shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of silver, and a manchet of bread, and shall say: Leave me I beseech thee to one priestly part, that I may eat a morsel of bread.📜💬📚
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