Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him._" And, having finished his reading, Israel would close the book, and sing out of the Psalms of David the psalm which says, "It is good for me that I have been in trouble, that I may learn Thy statutes." Thus, night after night, when the sun was gone down, did Israel read of the law and sing of the Psalms to Naomi, his daughter, who was both blind and deaf.

And though Naomi heard not, and neither did she see, yet in their silent hour together there was another in their chamber always with them--there was a third, for there was God..