Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Count not thine handmaid to be like a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my meditation and grief have I spoken hitherto."
New American Standard Bible
Do not
King James Version
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
Holman Bible
Don’t think of me as a wicked woman;
International Standard Version
Don't consider your maid servant a worthless woman. Rather, all this time I've been speaking because I'm very anxious and distressed."
A Conservative Version
Count not thy handmaid for an iniquitous woman, for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken until now.
American Standard Version
Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
Amplified
Do not regard your maidservant as a wicked and worthless woman, for I have spoken until now out of my great concern and [bitter] provocation.”
Bible in Basic English
Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.
Darby Translation
Take not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my grief and provocation have I spoken hitherto.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt not give thy servant before a daughter of Belial, for from the abundance of my complaint and my grief I spoke even till now.
King James 2000
Count not your handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I been speaking.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not regard your female servant as {worthless}, but because of the extent of my worries and my provocation I have spoken all of this."
Modern King James verseion
Do not count your handmaid for a daughter of wickedness, for out of the abundance of my meditation and grief I have spoken until now.
NET Bible
Don't consider your servant a wicked woman, for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish."
New Heart English Bible
Do not count your handmaid as a worthless woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my distress and my anguish."
The Emphasized Bible
Do not count thy handmaid for an abandoned woman, - for, out of the abundance of my grief and my vexation, have I spoken, hitherto.
Webster
Count not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
World English Bible
Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation."
Youngs Literal Translation
put not thy handmaid before a daughter of worthlessness, for from the abundance of my meditation, and of my provocation, I have spoken hitherto.'
Themes
Barrenness » Miraculously removed, instances of » Hannah
Children » In answer to prayer » Hannah
Drunkenness » Falsely accused of » Hannah
Hannah » Her trials and prayer, and promise
Meekness » Instances of » Hannah
Misjudgment » Instances of » Of hannah
Prayer » Answered » Hannah, asking to give birth to a child
Interlinear
Nathan
Paniym
Rob
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 1:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hannah And Eli
15 Hannah answered, and said, "Not so, my lord. I am a woman sorrowful in mine heart, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD. 16 Count not thine handmaid to be like a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my meditation and grief have I spoken hitherto." 17 Eli answered, and said, "Go in peace, the God of Israel shall grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him."
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:12
But the sons of Eli were unthrifty children, and knew not the LORD. For the manner of the priests with the people was:
Deuteronomy 13:13
that certain being the children of Belial are gone out from among you and have moved the inhabiters of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve strange gods which ye have not known.'
1 Samuel 10:27
But the children of Belial said, "How shall he save us?" And despised him and brought him not presents. And he made as though he had not heard it.
1 Samuel 25:25
Let not my lord regard this unthrifty man Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him. But I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord which thou sendest.
Job 6:2-3
For then should it be heavier than the sand of the sea.
Job 10:1-2
It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,
Matthew 12:34-35
O generation of vipers, how can ye say well, when ye yourselves are evil? For of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.