1 Samuel 2:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴ Our Lord, you break
    the bows of warriors,
but you give strength
    to everyone who stumbles.
⁵ People who once
    had plenty to eat
must now hire themselves out
    for only a piece of bread.
But you give the hungry more
    than enough to eat.
A woman did not have a child,
    and you gave her seven,
but a woman who had many
    was left with none.
^6 (A) You take away life,
    and you give life.
You send people down
to the world of the dead
    and bring them back again.