1 Samuel 1:5-7

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁵ but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, ^(A)but the Lord had closed her womb. ⁶ Her rival, however, ^(B)would provoke her bitterly to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb. ⁷ It happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.