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1 Samuel 1-2

The Prayer of Hannah

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The Prayer of Hannah

1 Samuel 1-2

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

Bible book
1 Samuel
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1 Samuel
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There is no rock like my God, no one holy as the Lord I was broken on the ground, now I'm standing on His word The proud have filled their mouths, with boasting they will choke on He sees the ones that no one sees He will not leave them forgotten The boughs of the mighty are shattered The weak rise up and take the field What man has built up to the heavens The Lord alone can break the seal He kills and He makes alive He brings down and He lifts high He raises up the poor from dust Sets them among princes This is not a gentle god This is fire and thunder He shatters kingdoms with his word And no one tears asunder I cried out from the depths where no one thought to find me I made a vow in desperation and he held every word I gave him The barren woman bears her children, the mother of many fades away What the world counts as nothing is the stone the Lord will raise The foes of the mighty are shattered The weak rise up and take the field When man is built up to the heavens The Lord alone can break the seal He kills and He makes alive He brings down and He lifts high He raises up the poor from dust Sets them among princes This is not a gentle God This is fire and thunder He shatters kingdoms with His word And no one tears asunder The pillars of the earth are His He set the world upon them The ends of the earth will hear this Every king will answer Guard your pride, guard your throne He has seen it all before The Lord will judge the corners Of everything you are He kills and he makes a liar He brings down and He lifts high He raises up the poor from dust Sets them among grinches This is not a gentle God This is fire and thunder He shatters kingdoms with His word And no one tears asunder No one holy as the Lord There is no rock like my God No one holy as the Lord There is no rock

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About the passage

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.

Study 1 Samuel 1 in depth

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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