1 Samuel 2:9-11
The Message
6-10 God brings death and God brings life,
brings down to the grave and raises up.
God brings poverty and God brings wealth;
he lowers, he also lifts up.
He puts poor people on their feet again;
he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope,
Restoring dignity and respect to their lives—
a place in the sun!
For the very structures of earth are God’s;
he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation.
He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step,
but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark.
No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle!
God’s enemies will be blasted out of the sky,
crashed in a heap and burned.
God will set things right all over the earth,
he’ll give strength to his king,
he’ll set his anointed on top of the world!
11 Elkanah went home to Ramah. The boy stayed and served God in the company of Eli the priest.
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1 Samuel 2:9-11
New International Version
9 He will guard the feet(A) of his faithful servants,(B)
but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.(C)
“It is not by strength(D) that one prevails;
10 those who oppose the Lord will be broken.(E)
The Most High will thunder(F) from heaven;
the Lord will judge(G) the ends of the earth.
11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah,(J) but the boy ministered(K) before the Lord under Eli the priest.
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