Eli: Yea, but the cup of your iniquity is full; and I—I suffer in your fall.

THE PRIEST ELI REBUKES HIS DRUNKEN SONS

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Phinehas (laughs mockingly): Ah, so? The iniquity of the children shall be visited upon the fathers? Eh? Well, who is responsible if not the father? Come, Hophni, come where it is merry.

Hophni (eagerly): Yea! (They go out singing and taking turns at jug.)

Eli (raising his arms despairingly to heaven): O God! God! (Passes out.)