If I have refused the wishes of the poor or let the widow’s eyes go blind,if I have eaten my few crumbs alone without letting the fatherless eat any of it—for from my youth, I raised him as his father, and since the day I was born I guided the widow—
Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.Whenever she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat.