1:15 But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, 1 my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. 2 I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to 3 the Lord.
1 tn Heb “No.”
2 tn Heb “I am a woman difficult of spirit.” The LXX has “for whom the day is difficult,” apparently mistaking the Hebrew word for “spirit” רוּחַ (ruakh) to be the word for “day” יוֹם (yom).
3 tn Heb “before.”
4 tn Heb “said.”
5 tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”
6 tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”
7 tn Heb “and the