¹Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

¹哈拿之歌哈拿禱告說：“我的心因耶和華喜樂，我的角因耶和華高舉，我的口向仇敵大大誇耀，因為我以你的救恩為樂。

²There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

²沒有人像耶和華那麼聖潔，因為除你以外沒有別的神，也沒有磐石像我們的　神。

³“Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

³你們不要多說驕傲的話，也不要口出狂妄之言，因為耶和華是全知的　神，人的一切行為他都鑒察。

⁴“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

⁴勇士的弓都被折斷，跌倒的人卻以力量束腰。

⁵Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

⁵飽足的，要勞碌覓食，飢餓的，不再飢餓；不能生育的，生了七個兒女，有過許多兒女的，反倒衰微。

⁶“Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , and brings up.

⁶耶和華使人死，也使人活；使人下陰間，也使人從陰間上來。

⁷Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

⁷耶和華使人貧窮，也使人富足；使人降卑，也使人升高。

⁸He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

⁸他從灰塵中抬舉貧寒的人，從糞堆中提拔窮乏的人，使他們與顯貴同坐，承受尊貴的座位。大地的柱子屬於耶和華，他把全地安放在柱子上面。

⁹He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

⁹耶和華必保護虔誠人的腳步，卻使惡人在黑暗中滅亡，因為人得勝不是靠著力量。

¹⁰Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

¹⁰至高者在天上打雷，耶和華必打碎與他作對的人。耶和華要審判地的四極，卻要賜力量給他所立的王，高舉他膏立之人的角。”

¹¹Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

¹¹後來，以利加拿回拉瑪自己的家去。那孩子卻留在以利祭司面前事奉耶和華。

¹²Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn’t know Yahweh.

¹²以利兒子的罪行以利的兩個兒子是無賴，不尊重耶和華，

¹³The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;

¹³也不理會當時祭司待人民的規矩。有人獻祭，在煮肉的時候，祭司的僕人就來，手裡拿著三齒的叉，

¹⁴and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

¹⁴把叉子插入煎盤裡，或鼎裡，或釜裡，或鍋裡，叉子插上來的，祭司都拿去。所有到示羅來的以色列人，祭司都是這樣待他們。

¹⁵Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”

¹⁵還有，在焚燒脂油以前，祭司的僕人就來，對獻祭的人說：“把祭肉交給祭司燒烤吧，因為他不會向你要煮過的肉，單要生的。”

¹⁶If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires”; then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

¹⁶如果那人對僕人說：“必須先把脂油焚燒了，然後你才可以隨意去拿。”他就說：“不可以，你現在就要給我，否則我就搶去。”

¹⁷The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.

¹⁷這樣，那兩個青年人在耶和華面前所犯的罪很大，因為他們藐視獻給耶和華的祭物。

¹⁸But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

¹⁸撒母耳在示羅事奉那時，撒母耳還是個孩童，束著細麻布的以弗得，在耶和華面前事奉。

¹⁹Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

¹⁹撒母耳的母親每年為他做一件小外袍，她和丈夫一同上來獻年祭的時候，就帶來給他。

²⁰Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” They went to their own home.

²⁰以利給以利加拿和他的妻子祝福，說：“願耶和華從這婦人身上還給你後裔，代替你獻給耶和華的孩子。”他們就回自己的地方去了。

²¹Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

²¹耶和華眷顧哈拿，她再懷孕，先後生了三個兒子和兩個女兒。那孩子撒母耳在耶和華面前，漸漸長大。

²²Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

²²以利教訓兒子以利已經老了，聽見自己的兒子對待以色列人的一切事，又聽見他們與在會幕門口侍應的婦女同寢。

²³He said to them, “Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

²³以利就對他們說：“你們為甚麼作這些事？我親自從眾民那裡聽見了你們的惡行。

²⁴No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh’s people disobey.

²⁴我兒啊，不要這樣，因為我聽見的消息很不好，你們使耶和華的子民違背律法。

²⁵If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

²⁵如果有人得罪人，有官長（“官長”原文作“　神”）懲罰他；如果有人得罪耶和華，有誰為他求情呢？”他們卻不聽父親的話，因為耶和華有意要殺他們。

²⁶The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.

²⁶那孩子撒母耳的身量，耶和華和眾人對他的喜愛，都不斷增長。

²⁷A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

²⁷預言以利家遭禍有一位神人來見以利，對他說：“耶和華這樣說：‘你父家在埃及法老家為奴的時候，我不是向他們顯現嗎？

²⁸Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

²⁸我不是從以色列眾支派中，選出他們作我的祭司，上我的壇燒香，在我面前穿以弗得嗎？我不是把以色列人所獻的火祭，都賜給了你的父家嗎？

²⁹Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

²⁹你們為甚麼還以妒羨的眼光，輕視我所吩咐要獻上的祭牲和禮物呢？你為甚麼尊重你的兒子過於尊重我，用我子民以色列所獻一切最好的禮物自肥呢？’

³⁰“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

³⁰因此，耶和華以色列的　神說：‘我曾說：你的家和你的父家，必永遠行在我面前。’現在耶和華卻說：‘我決不容你們這樣行了，因為尊重我的，我必尊重他；藐視我的，必受到輕視。

³¹Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.

³¹日子快到了，我要砍下你和你父親的膀臂，使你家中再沒有有權勢的長者。

³²You shall see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

³²我賜給以色列人的一切福分，你必像一個對頭，以嫉妒的眼光來看；而在你的家中，必永遠再沒有有權勢的長者。

³³The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall consume your eyes, and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

³³我必不從我的祭壇那裡滅絕你家的人，免得你的眼睛昏花，心靈憂傷，但所有你家中增添的人都必像世人一樣死去。

³⁴“‘This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall both die.

³⁴你的兩個兒子何弗尼和非尼哈所要遭遇的事，是給你的一個證據：他們二人必同日而死。

³⁵I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.

³⁵我要為自己興起一位忠心的祭司，他必依照我的心意行事；我要為他建立一個穩固的家，他一生必行在我的受膏者面前。

³⁶It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

³⁶你家中剩下的人，都要來向他下拜；求一個銀幣，一塊餅，也要說：求你容我參與祭司的職務，使我可以有點餅吃。’”