¹In Ana je molila in rekla: Srce moje se raduje v GOSPODU, rog moj je povišan po GOSPODU; usta moja so se široko odprla zoper sovražnike moje, kajti veselim se zveličanja tvojega.

¹And Hannah prayeth, and saith: `My heart hath exulted in Jehovah, My horn hath been high in Jehovah, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation.

²Nihče ni tako svet kakor GOSPOD, kajti razen tebe ni nobenega; in ni nobene Skale, kakor je naš Bog.

²There is none holy like Jehovah, For there is none save Thee, And there is no rock like our God.

³Ne množite govorov o visokih rečeh, predrznost naj ne pride iz vaših ust: kajti GOSPOD je Bog mogočni, ki vse pozna, in misli človeške na tehtnico deva on.

³Ye multiply not — ye speak haughtily — The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge [is] Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

⁴Močnih lok je zlomljen, a slabotni so opasani z močjo.

⁴Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

⁵Kateri so bili siti, so v službo stopili za kruh, in kateri so lakoto trpeli, niso več lačni; in nerodovitna je rodila sedmero, in katera je veliko imela otrok, je onemogla.

⁵The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

⁶GOSPOD mori in oživlja, pelje v kraj smrti [Hebr. šeol.] in zopet nazaj.

⁶Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

⁷GOSPOD spravi v uboštvo in obogati, on ponižuje, pa tudi povišuje.

⁷Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

⁸On povišuje ubožca iz prahu, siromaka vzdiguje iz blata, da ga posadi med plemenitnike in mu da podedovati slave prestol; kajti GOSPODOVI so stebri zemlje, in on je nanje postavil svet.

⁸He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause [them] to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah [are] the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

⁹On bo varoval svojih svetnikov noge, ali brezbožniki umolknejo v temi; zakaj po svoji moči človek ne pride kvišku.

⁹The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

¹⁰Zatrti bodo, kateri nasprotujejo GOSPODU, zoper nje bo on grmel v nebesih. GOSPOD bo sodil kraje zemlje, in da moč kralju svojemu in poviša rog maziljenca svojega.

¹⁰Jehovah — broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.`

¹¹In Elkana je šel v Ramo v hišo svojo. A deček je bil strežnik GOSPODU pred očmi Elija duhovnika.

¹¹And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, [in] the presence of Eli the priest;

¹²Sinova Elijeva pa sta bila otroka Belijalova; nista poznala GOSPODA.

¹²and the sons of Eli [are] sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.

¹³In navada duhovnikov proti ljudstvu je bila: Kadar je kdo prinesel daritev, je prišel, ko se je meso kuhalo, duhovnikov hlapec s trirogljatimi vilicami v roki,

¹³And the custom of the priests with the people [is]: any man sacrificing a sacrifice — then hath the servant of the priest come in when the flesh is boiling, and the hook of three teeth in his hand,

¹⁴in je ž njimi sunil v medenico ali v lonec ali v kotel ali v ponev, in karkoli je z vilicami izvlekel, je vzel duhovnik zase. Tako so delali v Silu vsem Izraelcem, ki so prihajali tja.

¹⁴and hath struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the hook bringeth up doth the priest take for himself; thus they do to all Israel who are coming in, there, in Shiloh.

¹⁵Enako je prišel tudi, preden so zažgali tolstino, duhovnikov hlapec in rekel možu, ki je opravljal daritev: Daj mesa, da ga opečem duhovniku; zakaj ne bo vzel kuhanega mesa od tebe, temuč sirovo.

¹⁵Also before they make perfume with the fat — then hath the priest`s servant come in, and said to the man who is sacrificing, `Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he doth not take of thee flesh boiled, but raw;`

¹⁶Ako je rekel dotičnik: Saj bodo precej zažgali tolstino, potem vzemi, kolikor ti ugaja; tedaj mu je odgovoril: Ne, ampak daj mi ga zdaj, in če ne daš, vzamem s silo.

¹⁶and the man saith unto him, `Let them surely make a perfume (as to-day) with the fat, then take to thee as thy soul desireth;` and he hath said to him, `Surely now thou dost give; and if not — I have taken by strength.`

¹⁷In greh mladeničev je bil silno velik pred GOSPODOM, kajti ljudje so zaničevali darila GOSPODOVA.

¹⁷And the sin of the young men is very great [in] the presence of Jehovah, for the men have despised the offering of Jehovah.

¹⁸Samuel pa je stregel pred obličjem GOSPODOVIM, še deček, prepasan s platnenim naramnikom;

¹⁸And Samuel is ministering [in] the presence of Jehovah, a youth girt [with] an ephod of linen;

¹⁹k temu mu je leto za letom napravila mati njegova suknjico in mu jo prinesla, ko je prišla gori z možem svojim opravljat vsakoletno daritev.

¹⁹and a small upper coat doth his mother make to him, and she hath brought it up to him from time to time, in her coming up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of the time.

²⁰In Eli je blagoslovil Elkana in ženo njegovo in rekel: GOSPOD ti daj zarod od te žene namesto darovanega, ki ga je izročila GOSPODU! In šli so v hišo svojo.

²⁰And Eli blessed Elkanah, and his wife, and said, `Jehovah doth appoint for thee seed of this woman, for the petition which she asked for Jehovah;` and they have gone to their place.

²¹In GOSPOD je obiskal Ano, da je spočela in rodila še tri sinove in dve hčeri. A deček Samuel je napredoval pri GOSPODU.

²¹When Jehovah hath looked after Hannah, then she conceiveth and beareth three sons and two daughters; and the youth Samuel groweth up with Jehovah.

²²Eli pa je bil silno star; in slišal je vse, kar počenjata sinova njegova z vsem Izraelom ter da se družita z ženami, ki so opravljale službo pri vratih shodnega šatora.

²²And Eli [is] very old, and hath heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling [at] the opening of the tent of meeting,

²³In dejal je jima: Zakaj to delata? slišim namreč o vajinih hudih dejanjih od vsega tega ljudstva.

²³and he saith to them, `Why do ye things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people — these!

²⁴Nikar, sinova moja! zakaj to ni dober glas, ki ga slišim; povzročata, da GOSPODOVO ljudstvo prestopa.

²⁴Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. —

²⁵Ako kdo greši zoper človeka, Bog mu je sodnik; ko pa kdo greši zoper GOSPODA, kdo se potegne zanj? Ali nista poslušala glasu očeta svojega; kajti GOSPOD ju je hotel umoriti.

²⁵If a man sin against a man, then hath God judged him; but if against Jehovah a man sin, who doth pray for him?` and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though Jehovah hath delighted to put them to death.

²⁶A deček Samuel je vedno napredoval in je bil prijeten GOSPODU in tudi ljudem.

²⁶And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and [is] good both with Jehovah, and also with men.

²⁷Pride pa mož Božji k Eliju in mu reče: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Nisem li se razodel očeta tvojega družini, ko so še bili v Egiptu, pri hiši Faraonovi?

²⁷And there cometh a man of God unto Eli, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, Was I really revealed unto the house of thy father in their being in Egypt, before Pharaoh`s house,

²⁸In njega sem si izvolil izmed vseh rodov Izraelovih, da bodi moj duhovnik, da daruje na mojem oltarju, da pali kadilo in naramnik nosi pred obličjem mojim; in očeta tvojega hiši sem dal vse daritve, ki jih po ognju darujejo sinovi Izraelovi.

²⁸even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?

²⁹Zakaj teptate daritve moje in jedilna darila meni, ki sem jih zapovedal v prebivališču svojem? In sinova svoja bolj spoštuješ nego mene, da se redite z najboljšim od jedilnih daril Izraela, ljudstva mojega!

²⁹Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded [in] My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?

³⁰Zato pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Rekel sem bil res, da naj bi hiša tvoja in tvojega očeta hiša hodili pred mano vekomaj; ali sedaj pravi GOSPOD: Ne bodi tako; zakaj tiste, ki me časte, počastim tudi jaz, in ki mene zaničujejo, malo jih bom cenil tudi jaz.

³⁰`Therefore — the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel — I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now — the affirmation of Jehovah — Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.

³¹Glej, pridejo dnevi, da odsekam ramo tvojo in ramo hiši očeta tvojega, da ne bo starca v hiši tvoji.

³¹`Lo, days [are] coming, and I have cut off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father, that an old man is not in thy house;

³²In videl boš le stisko prebivališča mojega, pri vsem dobrem, kar Bog dodeli Izraelu in priletnega ne bode v hiši tvoji vekomaj.

³²and thou hast beheld an adversary [in My] habitation, in all that He doth good with Israel, and there is not an old man in thy house all the days.

³³Nočem ti sicer slehernega zatreti od oltarja mojega, ker bi ti usahnile oči in duša ti skoprnela, ali vsa mladina hiše tvoje pomrje v moških letih.

³³`And the man I cut not off of thine from Mine altar, [is] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house do die men;

³⁴In to ti bodi v znamenje, kar pride na oba sinova tvoja, Ofnija in Pinehasa: obadva umrjeta eden dan.

³⁴and this [is] to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas — in one day they die both of them;

³⁵In obudim si zvestega duhovnika, ki bo delal, kakor je po mojem srcu in po mojih mislih, in njemu sezidam stanovitno hišo; in hodil bo pred maziljencem mojim vse dni.In zgodi se, da vsak, kdor preostane iz hiše tvoje, pride in se njemu pokloni za srebrn denar in hlebček kruha ter poreče: Prosim, pripusti me vsaj v eno duhovsko službo, da jem grižljaj kruha.

³⁵and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days;

³⁶In zgodi se, da vsak, kdor preostane iz hiše tvoje, pride in se njemu pokloni za srebrn denar in hlebček kruha ter poreče: Prosim, pripusti me vsaj v eno duhovsko službo, da jem grižljaj kruha.

³⁶and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest`s offices, to eat a morsel of bread.`