26and she said to him, "As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord .


In Context

23 "Do what seems best to you," Elkanah her husband told her. "Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good his word." So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

24 After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh.

25 When they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli,

26 and she said to him, "As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord .

27 I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.

28 So now I give him to the Lord . For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord ." And he worshiped the Lord there.

1st Samuel 1:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:26And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I [am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:26And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord: I am that woman who stood before thee here praying to the Lord.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:26And she said, Oh, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto Jehovah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here to pray to Jehovah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:26And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26And she said, O my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying to the LORD.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26She said, |Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:26and she saith, 'O, my lord, thy soul liveth! my lord, I am the woman who stood with thee in this place, to pray unto Jehovah;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:26And she said, Oh my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood by you here, praying to the LORD.