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Reader: ““My heart rejoices in the Lord!”
Response: “The Lord has made me strong.”
Scripture: I Samuel 2:1-10
>Then Hannah prayed:
>“My heart rejoices in the Lord!
>The Lord has made me strong.
>Now I have an answer for my enemies;
>I rejoice because you rescued me.
>No one is holy like the Lord!
>There is no one besides you;
>there is no Rock like our God.
>“Stop acting so proud and haughty!
>Don’t speak with such arrogance!
>For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done;
>he will judge your actions.
>The bow of the mighty is now broken,
>and those who stumbled are now strong.
>Those who were well fed are now starving,
>and those who were starving are now full.
>The childless woman now has seven children,
>and the woman with many children wastes away.
>The Lord gives both death and life;
>he brings some down to the grave but raises others up.
>The Lord makes some poor and others rich;
>he brings some down and lifts others up.
>He lifts the poor from the dust
>and the needy from the garbage dump.
>He sets them among princes,
>placing them in seats of honor.
>For all the earth is the Lord’s,
>and he has set the world in order.
>“He will protect his faithful ones,
>but the wicked will disappear in darkness.
>No one will succeed by strength alone.
>Those who fight against the Lord will be shattered.
>He thunders against them from heaven;
>the Lord judges throughout the earth.
>He gives power to his king;
>he increases the strength of his anointed one.”
Reader: “The word of the Lord.”
Response: “Thanks be to God.”
Response: “The Lord has made me strong.”
Scripture: I Samuel 2:1-10
>Then Hannah prayed:
>“My heart rejoices in the Lord!
>The Lord has made me strong.
>Now I have an answer for my enemies;
>I rejoice because you rescued me.
>No one is holy like the Lord!
>There is no one besides you;
>there is no Rock like our God.
>“Stop acting so proud and haughty!
>Don’t speak with such arrogance!
>For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done;
>he will judge your actions.
>The bow of the mighty is now broken,
>and those who stumbled are now strong.
>Those who were well fed are now starving,
>and those who were starving are now full.
>The childless woman now has seven children,
>and the woman with many children wastes away.
>The Lord gives both death and life;
>he brings some down to the grave but raises others up.
>The Lord makes some poor and others rich;
>he brings some down and lifts others up.
>He lifts the poor from the dust
>and the needy from the garbage dump.
>He sets them among princes,
>placing them in seats of honor.
>For all the earth is the Lord’s,
>and he has set the world in order.
>“He will protect his faithful ones,
>but the wicked will disappear in darkness.
>No one will succeed by strength alone.
>Those who fight against the Lord will be shattered.
>He thunders against them from heaven;
>the Lord judges throughout the earth.
>He gives power to his king;
>he increases the strength of his anointed one.”
Reader: “The word of the Lord.”
Response: “Thanks be to God.”
