“ If I have kept the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the orphan has not shared it( But from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And from my infancy I guided her),
Her rival, moreover, would provoke her bitterly to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.And it happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, that she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.