1 Samuel 1:15

And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.

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In The King James Version

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunken neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

In Context

14And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.

16Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.

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Cross References

Job 30:16But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

Psalms 62:8\62:7\In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.

Psalms 142:2\142:1\The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.

Proverbs 14:10No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

Proverbs 25:15A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 1:10-19

Hannah's Prayer. ( b. c. 1140.) 9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord . 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord , and wept sore. 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days… Read the whole commentary →

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