<p class="poetry">Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food,p> <p class="poetry">but the hungry no longer lack.p> <p class="poetry">Even<n id="1" /> the barren woman gives birth to seven,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the one with many children withers away.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her.

After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, &#8220;I asked the <sc>Lordsc> for him.<n id="1" />p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sanctuary.<n id="1" />p>

As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!&#8221; But she did not reply or pay any attention.<n id="1" />p>