1 Samuel 1:15

“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

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 said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”

16Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

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Cross References

Job 30:16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.

Psalms 62:8Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

Psalms 142:2I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

Proverbs 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

Proverbs 25:15Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

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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