‘And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lᴏʀᴅ.
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‘For this child I prayed; and the Lᴏʀᴅ hath given me my petition which I asked of him’
—1 Samuel 1:15, 27
