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1 Samuel 1:1-2:11

Poured Out Before the LORD

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Poured Out Before the LORD

1 Samuel 1:1-2:11

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This song belongs to the 1 Samuel collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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1 Samuel
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1 Samuel
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[Verse 1] Elkanah travels yearly from Ramah to worship and sacrifice at Shiloh. Elkanah gives Hannah a worthy portion because he loves her. Elkanah asks why Hannah grieves despite his faithful love. She vows that a son will be given to the LORD all his days. [Pre-Chorus] No answer came to quiet every fear, Only the weight of all that had drawn near. [Chorus] Poured Out Before the LORD, carry this grief through night, Tears have weight beneath the fading light. Truth still speaks when comfort has grown thin, And faith keeps breathing where the wounds begin. [Verse 2] Eli sends her in peace and asks God to grant her petition. Hannah leaves with a changed countenance and joins the family worship. The LORD remembers Hannah, and she conceives and bears Samuel. She brings Samuel to Shiloh with offerings after he is weaned. [Bridge] She testifies that God granted the child and lends him back to the LORD. Hannah begins her prayer by rejoicing in God's strength and salvation. Her song declares that God humbles the proud and raises the weak. Samuel remains to minister before the LORD as his family returns home. [Final Chorus] Poured Out Before the LORD, carry this grief through night, Tears have weight beneath the fading light. Truth still speaks when comfort has grown thin, And faith keeps breathing when the night grows thin. [Outro] The night remained, but truth remained as well. Not every wound was given words to tell.

Named in this songRamahShilohHannahEliSamuel

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1 Samuel 1: A prayer nobody else can hear

The Book of 1 Samuel opens far from a battlefield or throne. Hannah cannot eat at the yearly feast, Elkanah cannot solve her grief with affection, and Eli mistakes silent prayer for drunkenness. The chapter keeps placing visible facts beside mistaken conclusions. Hannah's moving lips look suspicious to Eli, but her prayer reaches beyond the priest's hearing. When Samuel is born, the answer does not end in possession. Hannah nurses him, waits until he is weaned, then returns to the place of her humiliation and identifies herself simply as the woman who once stood there praying. The child she asked for is the child she gives to lifelong service. Asking, receiving, nursing, and giving all belong to the same act of faithfulness.

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1 Samuel 2: Hannah sings the reversals that the house of Eli will face

Hannah's prayer begins with her own deliverance and expands until it reaches broken bows, hungry people, lifted beggars, a coming king, and the LORD's thunder. The rest of the chapter then begins turning those reversals into household history at Shiloh. Hophni and Phinehas have office but do not know the LORD; Samuel is a child, yet he grows before him. The priests seize meat, abuse worshippers, and refuse correction, while Hannah quietly brings a little coat each year. Eli rebukes his sons but does not restrain them, and an unnamed man of God announces the consequence: the house that has made itself fat from offerings will someday beg for bread. The chapter does not let corruption occupy all of Shiloh. It places faithful service beside institutional failure until the contrast becomes impossible to ignore.

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