“And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.”
King James Version (KJV)
3:18 It is the Lord - This severe sentence is from the sovereign Lord of the world, who hath an absolute right to dispose of me and all his creatures; who is in a special manner the ruler of the people of Israel, to whom it properly belongs to punish all mine offences; whose chastisement I therefore accept.