1 Rg 2:1[Exultāvit cor meum in Dominō, et exaltātum est cornū meum in Deō meō;["My heart has exulted in the Lord, and my horn has been exalted in my God; 1 Rg 2:1Dīlātātum est ōs meum super inimīcōs meōs: quia laetāta sum in salūtārī tuō.my mouth has been opened wide over my enemies: because I have rejoiced in your salvation. 1 Rg 2:2Nōn est sānctus, ut est Dominus, neque enim est alius extrā tē, et nōn est fortis sīcut Deus noster.There is none holy, as the Lord is, for neither is there another besides you, and there is none strong like our God. 1 Rg 2:3Nōlīte multiplicāre loquī sublīmia glōriantēs;Do not multiply speaking lofty things, boasting; 1 Rg 2:3Recēdant vetera dē ōre vestrō: quia Deus scientiārum Dominus est, et ipsī praeparantur cōgitātiōnēs.let old things depart from your mouth: because the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him thoughts are prepared. 1 Rg 2:4Arcus fortium superātus est, et īnfirmī accīnctī sunt rōbore.The bow of the mighty has been overcome, and the weak have been girded with strength. 1 Rg 2:5Replētī prius, prō pānibus sē locāvērunt: et famēlicī saturātī sunt, dōnec sterilis peperit plūrimōs: et quae multōs habēbat fīliōs, īnfirmāta est.Those filled before have hired themselves out for bread: and the hungry have been satisfied, until the barren one has borne very many: and she who had many sons has been made weak.
1 Rg 2:6Dominus mortificat et vīvificat;The Lord puts to death and brings to life; 1 Rg 2:6Dēdūcit ad īnferōs et redūcit.he leads down to the underworld and leads back. 1 Rg 2:7Dominus pauperem facit et dītat, humiliat et sublevat.The Lord makes poor and makes rich, he humbles and lifts up. 1 Rg 2:8Suscitat dē pulvere egēnum, et dē stercore ēlevat pauperem: ut sedeat cum prīncipibus, et solium glōriae teneat.He raises up the needy from the dust, and from the dung he lifts the poor: so that he may sit with princes, and may hold the throne of glory. 1 Rg 2:8Dominī enim sunt cardinēs terrae, et posuit super eōs orbem.For the hinges of the earth are the Lord's, and he has set the world upon them. 1 Rg 2:9Pedēs sānctōrum suōrum servābit, et impiī in tenebrīs conticēscent: quia nōn in fortitūdine suā rōborābitur vir.He will guard the feet of his saints, and the wicked will fall silent in darkness: because not in his own strength shall a man be made strong. 1 Rg 2:10Dominum formīdābunt adversāriī ejus: et super ipsōs in caelīs tonābit.His adversaries will dread the Lord: and over them in the heavens he will thunder.
1 Rg 2:10Dominus jūdicābit fīnēs terrae, et dabit imperium rēgī suō, et sublīmābit cornū chrīstī suī.] Et abiit Elcana Ramatha, in domum suam: puer autem erat minister in cōnspectū Dominī ante faciem Heli sacerdōtis.The Lord will judge the ends of the earth, and will give command to his king, and will exalt the horn of his anointed."] And Elkanah went off to Ramah, into his house: but the boy was a minister in the sight of the Lord before the face of Eli the priest. 1 Rg 2:12Porrō fīliī Heli, fīliī Belial, nescientēs Dominum, neque officium sacerdōtum ad populum: sed quīcumque immolāsset victimam, veniēbat puer sacerdōtis, dum coquerentur carnēs, et habēbat fuscinulam tridentem in manū suā, et mittēbat eam in lebētem, vel in caldāriam, aut in ollam, sīve in cacabum: et omne quod levābat fuscinulā, tollēbat sacerdōs sibi: sīc faciēbant ūniversō Israëlī venientium in Silo.Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, not knowing the Lord, nor the office of the priests towards the people: but whoever had sacrificed a victim, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was being cooked, and he had a three-pronged fork in his hand, and he would put it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the pot, or into the pan: and all that the fork lifted, the priest would take for himself: thus they did to all Israel of those coming to Shiloh.
1 Rg 2:15Etiam antequam adolērent adipem, veniēbat puer sacerdōtis, et dīcēbat immolantī: Dā mihi carnem, ut coquam sacerdōtī: nōn enim accipiam ā tē carnem coctam, sed crūdam.Even before they burned the fat, the priest's servant would come, and say to the one sacrificing: "Give me meat, so that I may cook it for the priest: for I will not receive cooked meat from you, but raw." 1 Rg 2:16Dīcēbatque illī immolāns: Incendātur prīmum jūxtā mōrem hodiē adeps, et tolle tibi quantumcumque dēsīderat anima tua.And the one sacrificing would say to him: "Let the fat first be burned today according to custom, and take for yourself as much as your soul desires." 1 Rg 2:16Quī respondēns aiēbat eī: Nēquāquam: nunc enim dabis, aliōquīn tollam vī.He, answering, would say to him: "By no means: for you will give it now, otherwise I will take it by force." 1 Rg 2:17Erat ergō peccātum puerōrum grande nimis cōram Dominō: quia retrahēbant hominēs ā sacrificiō Dominī.So the sin of the young men was great beyond measure before the Lord: because they were drawing men back from the sacrifice of the Lord.
1 Rg 2:18Samuēl autem ministrābat ante faciem Dominī, puer accīnctus ephod līneō.But Samuel was ministering before the face of the Lord, a boy girded with a linen ephod. 1 Rg 2:19Et tunicam parvam faciēbat eī māter sua, quam afferēbat statūtīs diēbus, ascendēns cum virō suō, ut immolāret hostiam solemnem.And his mother used to make him a small tunic, which she brought on the appointed days, going up with her husband, to sacrifice the solemn victim. 1 Rg 2:20Et benedīxit Heli Elcanae et uxōrī ejus: dīxitque eī: Reddat tibi Dominus sēmen dē muliere hāc, prō foenore quod commodāstī Dominō.And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife: and said to him: "May the Lord repay you seed from this woman, for the loan which you have lent to the Lord." 1 Rg 2:20Et abiērunt in locum suum.And they went off to their own place. 1 Rg 2:21Vīsitāvit ergō Dominus Annam, et concēpit, et peperit trēs fīliōs, et duās fīliās: et magnificātus est puer Samuēl apud Dominum.So the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons, and two daughters: and the boy Samuel was made great with the Lord. 1 Rg 2:22Heli autem erat senex valdē, et audīvit omnia quae faciēbant fīliī suī ūniversō Israëlī, et quōmodo dormiēbant cum mulieribus quae observābant ad ōstium tabernāculī: et dīxit eīs: Quārē facitis rēs hujuscemodī quās ego audiō, rēs pessimās, ab omnī populō?Now Eli was very old, and he heard all the things which his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they were sleeping with the women who kept watch at the door of the tabernacle: and he said to them: "Why do you do things of this kind which I hear, very evil things, from all the people?
1 Rg 2:24Nōlīte, fīliī meī: nōn enim est bona fāma quam ego audiō, ut trānsgredī faciātis populum Dominī.Do not, my sons: for it is not a good report which I hear, that you make the people of the Lord transgress. 1 Rg 2:25Sī peccāverit vir in virum, plācārī eī potest Deus: sī autem in Dominum peccāverit vir, quis ōrābit prō eō?If a man sins against a man, God can be appeased for him: but if a man sins against the Lord, who will pray for him?" 1 Rg 2:25Et nōn audiērunt vōcem patris suī: quia voluit Dominus occīdere eōs.And they did not listen to the voice of their father: because the Lord willed to kill them. 1 Rg 2:26Puer autem Samuēl prōficiēbat atque crēscēbat, et placēbat tam Dominō quam hominibus.But the boy Samuel was advancing and growing, and was pleasing both to the Lord and to men. 1 Rg 2:27Vēnit autem vir Deī ad Heli, et ait ad eum: Haec dīcit Dominus: Numquid nōn apertē revēlātus sum domuī patris tuī, cum essent in Aegyptō in domō Pharaōnis?And a man of God came to Eli, and said to him: "These things says the Lord: Was I not openly revealed to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?
1 Rg 2:28Et ēlēgī eum ex omnibus tribubus Isrāël mihi in sacerdōtem, ut ascenderet ad altāre meum, et adolēret mihi incēnsum, et portāret ephod cōram mē: et dedī domuī patris tuī omnia dē sacrificiīs fīliōrum Isrāël.And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel for myself as priest, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense to me, and to carry the ephod before me: and I gave to the house of your father all things from the sacrifices of the sons of Israel. 1 Rg 2:29Quārē calce abjēcistis victimam meam, et mūnera mea quae praecēpī ut offerrentur in templō: et magis honōrāstī fīliōs tuōs quam mē, ut comederētis prīmitiās omnis sacrificiī Isrāël populī meī?Why have you kicked away with the heel my victim, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and you have honoured your sons more than me, so that you might eat the first-fruits of every sacrifice of Israel my people? 1 Rg 2:30Proptereā ait Dominus Deus Isrāël: Loquēns locūtus sum, ut domus tua, et domus patris tuī, ministrāret in cōnspectū meō ūsque in sempiternum.Therefore says the Lord God of Israel: Speaking I have spoken, that your house, and the house of your father, should minister in my sight for ever.
1 Rg 2:30Nunc autem dīcit Dominus: Absit hoc ā mē: sed quīcumque glōrificāverit mē, glōrificābō eum: quī autem contemnunt mē, erunt ignōbilēs.But now the Lord says: Far be this from me: but whoever glorifies me, I will glorify him: but those who despise me shall be without honour. 1 Rg 2:31Ecce diēs veniunt, et praecīdam brachium tuum, et brachium domus patris tuī, ut nōn sit senex in domō tuā.Look, days are coming, and I will cut off your arm, and the arm of the house of your father, so that there will not be an old man in your house. 1 Rg 2:32Et vidēbis aemulum tuum in templō, in ūniversīs prosperīs Isrāël: et nōn erit senex in domō tuā omnibus diēbus.And you will see your rival in the temple, in all the prosperity of Israel: and there will not be an old man in your house all the days. 1 Rg 2:33Vērumtamen nōn auferam penitus virum ex tē ab altārī meō: sed ut dēficiant oculī tuī, et tābēscat anima tua: et pars magna domus tuae moriētur cum ad virīlem aetātem vēnerit.Nevertheless I will not take away a man from you entirely from my altar: but so that your eyes may fail, and your soul may waste away: and a great part of your house will die when it has come to manly age.
1 Rg 2:34Hoc autem erit tibi signum, quod ventūrum est duōbus fīliīs tuīs, Ophni et Phinees: in diē ūnō morientur ambō.And this will be the sign for you, which is to come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on one day they will both die. 1 Rg 2:35Et suscitābō mihi sacerdōtem fidēlem, quī jūxtā cor meum et animam meam faciet: et aedificābō eī domum fidēlem, et ambulābit cōram chrīstō meō cūnctīs diēbus.And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will act according to my heart and my soul: and I will build him a faithful house, and he will walk before my anointed all the days. 1 Rg 2:36Futūrum est autem, ut quīcumque remānserit in domō tuā, veniat ut ōrētur prō eō, et offerat nummum argenteum, et tortam pānis, dīcatque: Dīmitte mē, obsecrō, ad ūnam partem sacerdōtālem, ut comedam buccellam pānis.And it will come to be, that whoever remains in your house will come so that prayer may be made for him, and will offer a silver coin, and a loaf of bread, and will say: Admit me, I beg, to one priestly portion, so that I may eat a morsel of bread."