31 Behold, (A)the days are coming when I will break your [a]strength and the [b]strength of your father’s house so that there will not be an old man in your house. 32 You will see (B)the distress of My dwelling, in spite of all the good that [c]I do for Israel; and an (C)old man will not be in your house forever. 33 Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar [d]so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die [e]in the prime of life.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:31 Or arm
  2. 1 Samuel 2:31 Or arm
  3. 1 Samuel 2:32 Lit He does
  4. 1 Samuel 2:33 Lit to waste away your eyes and to grieve your soul
  5. 1 Samuel 2:33 Lit as men