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3And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

⁴For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.

¹³So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

⁶For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

⁹We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

³²Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

¹²For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

¹¹Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:

¹⁷If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

¹²But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.