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“He has made me a byword of the peoples,
    and I am one before whom people spit.(A)

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“God has made me a byword(A) to everyone,(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.(C)

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Her rival used to provoke her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.(A)

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Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.(A)

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So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

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This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.(A)

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