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Then Hannah prayed; she said: "My heart exults in ADONAI! My dignity has been restored by ADONAI! I can gloat over my enemies, because of my joy at your saving me.
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"No one is as holy as ADONAI, because there is none to compare with you, no rock like our God.
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"Stop your proud boasting! Don't let arrogance come from your mouth! For ADONAI is a God of knowledge, and he appraises actions.
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The bows of the mighty are broken, while the feeble are armed with strength.
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The well-fed hire themselves for bread, while those who were hungry hunger no more. The barren woman has borne seven, while the mother of many wastes away.
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"ADONAI kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and he brings up.
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ADONAI makes poor, and he makes rich; he humbles, and he exalts.
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He raises the poor from the dust, lifts up the needy from the trash pile; he gives them a place with leaders and assigns them seats of honor. "For the earth's pillars belong to ADONAI; on them he has placed the world.
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He will guard the steps of his faithful, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. For it is not by strength that a person prevails -
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those who fight ADONAI will be shattered; he will thunder against them in heaven ADONAI will judge the ends of the earth. He will strengthen his king and enhance the power of his anointed."