“She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.”
1 Samuel 1:18 (WEB)
Context Reading
16Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.” 17Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the Godof Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.” 18She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more. 19They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her. 20When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel,saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”