29. Why, then, do you look with greed at the sacrifices and offerings which I require from my people? Why, Eli, do you honour your sons more than me by letting them fatten themselves on the best parts of all the sacrifices my people offer to me?
30. I, the Lord God of Israel, promised in the past that your family and your clan would serve me as priests for all time. But now I say that I won't have it any longer! Instead, I will honour those who honour me, and I will treat with contempt those who despise me.
31. Listen, the time is coming when I will kill all the young men in your family and your clan, so that no man in your family will live to be old.
32. You will be troubled and look with envy on all the blessings I will give to the other people of Israel, but no one in your family will ever again live to old age.