“ If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—
Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.