6The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
7The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
8Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.
10Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.
11Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child became the servant of the Lord under the direction of Eli the priest.
12Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.
