1 Samuel 2:1

1 Samuel 2:1

Hannah’s Prayer

1 And Hannah ^aprayed and said:
^b“My¹ heart rejoices in the Lord;
^cMy horn is exalted in the Lord.
¹I smile at my enemies,
Because I ^drejoice in Your salvation.

2 “No^a one is holy like the Lord,
For there is ^bnone besides You,
Nor is there any ^crock like our God.

3 “Talk no more so very proudly;
^aLet no arrogance come from your mouth,
For the Lord is the God of ^bknowledge;
And by Him actions are weighed.

4 “The^a bows of the mighty men are broken,
And those who stumbled are girded with strength.

5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
And the hungry have ceased to hunger.
Even ^athe barren has borne seven,
And ^bshe who has many children has become feeble.

6 “The^a Lord kills and makes alive;
He brings down to the grave and brings up.

7 The Lord ^amakes poor and makes rich;
^bHe brings low and lifts up.

8 ^aHe raises the poor from the dust
And lifts the beggar from the ash heap,
^bTo set them among princes
And make them inherit the throne of glory.
^c“For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
And He has set the world upon them.

9 ^aHe will guard the feet of His saints,
But the ^bwicked shall be silent in darkness.
“For by strength no man shall prevail.

10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be ^abroken in pieces;
^bFrom heaven He will thunder against them.
^cThe Lord will judge the ends of the earth.
^d“He will give ^estrength to His king,
And ^fexalt the horn of His anointed.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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HANNAH'S SONG IN THANKFULNESS TO GOD. (I Samuel 2:1-11)

Hannah prayed, and said—Praise and prayer are inseparably conjoined in Scripture (Colossians 4:2; I Timothy 2:1). This beautiful song was her tribute of thanks for the divine goodness in answering her petition.

mine horn is exalted in the Lord—Allusion is here made to a peculiarity in the dress of Eastern women about Lebanon, which seems to have obtained anciently among the Israelite women, that of wearing a tin or silver horn on the forehead, on which their veil is suspended. Wives, who have no children, wear it projecting in an oblique direction, while those who become mothers forthwith raise it a few inches higher, inclining towards the perpendicular, and by this slight but observable change in their headdress, make known, wherever they go, the maternal character which they now bear.

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