撒母耳记上 2:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

飽足的，要勞碌覓食，飢餓的，不再飢餓；不能生育的，生了七個兒女，有過許多兒女的，反倒衰微。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
素 来 饱 足 的 ， 反 作 用 人 求 食 ； 饥 饿 的 ， 再 不 饥 饿 。 不 生 育 的 ， 生 了 七 个 儿 子 ； 多 有 儿 女 的 ， 反 倒 衰 微 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Hannah prayed: "The Lord has filled my heart with joy; I feel very strong in the Lord . I can laugh at my enemies; I am glad because you have helped me! ² "There is no one holy like the Lord . There is no God but you; there is no Rock like our God. ³ "Don't continue bragging, don't speak proud words. The Lord is a God who knows everything, and he judges what people do. ⁴ "The bows of warriors break, but weak people become strong. ⁵ Those who once had plenty of food now must work for food, but people who were hungry are hungry no more. The woman who could not have children now has seven, but the woman who had many children now is sad. ⁶ "The Lord sends death, and he brings to life. He sends people to the grave, and he raises them to life again. ⁷ The Lord makes some people poor, and others he makes rich. He makes some people humble, and others he makes great. ⁸ The Lord raises the poor up from the dust, and he lifts the needy from the ashes. He lets the poor sit with princes and receive a throne of honor. "The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord , and the Lord set the world upon them. ⁹ He protects those who are loyal to him, but evil people will be silenced in darkness. Power is not the key to success. ¹⁰ The Lord destroys his enemies; he will thunder in heaven against them. The Lord will judge all the earth. He will give power to his king and make his appointed king strong."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

full: Psalms 34:10, Luke 1:53, Luke 16:25

the barren: 1 Samuel 1:20, Psalms 113:9

waxed feeble: 1 Samuel 1:6, Isaiah 54:1, Jeremiah 15:9, Galatians 4:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:2 - Am I Genesis 33:3 - seven times Leviticus 26:18 - seven times Job 18:12 - hungerbitten Job 27:14 - his offspring Psalms 68:6 - God Psalms 107:11 - contemned Psalms 107:39 - they are Ecclesiastes 3:2 - time to be born Luke 6:25 - full

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:11
The first river, named Pishon, flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is excellent. Bdellium and onyx are also found there.

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced Adam out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:2
After that, Eve gave birth to Cain's brother Abel. Abel took care of flocks, and Cain became a farmer.

Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Job 5:10
He gives rain to the earth and sends water on the fields.

Psalms 104:14
You make the grass for cattle and vegetables for the people. You make food grow from the earth.

Psalms 135:7
He brings the clouds from the ends of the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain. He brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22
Do foreign idols have the power to bring rain? Does the sky itself have the power to send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. You are our only hope, because you are the one who made all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They that are full have hired out themselves for bread,.... Such as have been full of the good things of this life have been stripped of all, and reduced to such circumstances as to be obliged to hire themselves out to persons to labour under them for their bread. Hannah has either respect to some instances she had known, or prophesies of what would be hereafter, and was fulfilled in the Israelites, when in the hands of the Egyptians and Assyrians, Lamentations 4:6 and may be exemplified in the case of the prodigal son, Luke 15:13 and is true of such who have larger gifts, but not grace, and which they exercise for lucre sake, and are mere hirelings; and of self-righteous persons who are full of themselves, of their goodness and righteousness, purity, and power; are quite mercenary do all they do for gain, work for life, and labour for perishing meat, and for that which is not bread, and is unsatisfying:

and they that were hungry ceased; that is, from being hungry, being filled with good things, having a large and sufficient supply to satisfy their craving desires, Luke 1:53. Such are the changes sometimes in Providence, that those who have lived in great plenty and fulness are obliged to work for their bread; and, on the other hand, such as have been starving, and in furnishing circumstances, have been brought into very plentiful and affluent ones. The "hungry", in a spiritual sense, are such who hunger an thirst after Christ, and his righteousness, for justification before God; after him and his blood for the remission of their sins, and the cleansing of their souls; after him, and salvation by him, in whom alone it is to be had; after a view of interest in him, and a greater degree of knowledge of him; and after more communion with him in his word and ordinances; and after the enjoyment of them for that purpose: now when they enjoy what they are craving after, they cease to hire out themselves for bread, as others do; they do not cease from working, but from dependence on their works, on which they cannot feed and live, having found and got other and better bread to feed upon; they cease to be hungry, for they are filled and satisfied with the love of God, with the righteousness of Christ, with the blessings of grace, and salvation by him, with the goodness of his house, and with all the fulness of God and Christ; and so having what satisfies them, they desire no other food, shall have no more want, or be in a starving condition any more, especially this will be the case hereafter:

so that the barren hath born seven; meaning herself, who had born many, even five children besides Samuel, 1 Samuel 2:20 which either was the case before this song was delivered; or rather what she believed would be the case after Eli had blessed her, and prayed for the children by her; seven being a number put for many, Proverbs 24:16

and she that hath many children is waxed feeble; and incapable of bearing more; and stripped of what she had; this may be understood of Peninnah, concerning whom the Jews have this tradition o, which Jarchi relates, that when Hannah bore one child, Peninnah buried two; and whereas Hannah had five, Peninnah lost all her ten children. This may be applied to the case of the Gentile and Jewish churches, under the Gospel dispensation, when more were the children of the desolate or barren, the Gentiles, than of the married wife, the Jews, Isaiah 54:1.

o Vid. Hieron, Trad. Heb. in. lib. Reg. fol. 34. K.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See an instance in 1 Samuel 2:36. See, too, in Ezekiel 13:19, another example of hire paid in bread.

Ceased - i. e. were at rest, did no work. The general sense is expressed by the translation of the Latin Version, “they were filled.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 2:5. They that were full — All the things mentioned in these verses frequently happen in the course of the Divine providence; and indeed it is the particular providence of God that Hannah seems more especially to celebrate through the whole of this simple yet sublime ode.