1 Samuel 1:15
And Hannah answered and said, xNo, my lord, I am a woman 8of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have ypoured out my soul before the LORD.
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 LORD.
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Proverbs 15:1 A SOFT answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
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Heb. hard of spirit.
y:
Psalms 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Psalms 142:1 I CRIED unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
in whom drunkenness is most abominable; so that the Romans punished it with death; therefore judge me not so severely.
and therefore not likely to give up myself to drink and jollity, and far from that merry temper which drunkards have: I am drunk with affliction, not with wine, as is said, Isa 51:21.
to wit, this day: see above, 1Sa 1:7,8.
have been breathing forth the griefs, and perplexities, and desires of my soul. The like phrase is Job 30:16 Psa 62:8 142:2.