Here’s an intergenerational
setting of 1 Samuel 2:1-10, set for multiple voices. It was written by Carolyn Brown, based on
Today’s English Version of the scripture.
Carolyn notes: “Hannah’s prayer or song should be read by
one or more women. If the group includes women
and girls of all ages, it feels like a choir of happy women praising
God. The script below lists 15 readers, but could be read by as few
as 3 or4 readers with each reading one part in turn. Give each
reader a script with her part/s highlighted.
Hannah’s Prayer
All: The Lord has filled my heart with joy;
how happy I am because of what he
has done!
1: I laugh at my enemies;
how joyful
I am because God has helped me!
2: No one is holy like the Lord;
there is
none like him,
no
protector like our God.
3: Stop your loud boasting;
silence
your proud words.
For the
Lord is a God who knows,
and he
judges all that people do.
4: The bows of strong soldiers are
broken,
but the
weak grow strong.
5: The people who once were well fed
now hire
themselves out to get food,
but the
hungry are hungry no more.
6: The childless wife has borne seven children,
but the
mother of many is left with none.
7: The Lord kills and restores to life;
he sends
people to the world of the dead
and brings
them back again.
8: The Lord makes some poor and others rich;
he humbles
some and makes others great.
9: The Lord lifts the poor from the dust
and raises
the needy from their misery.
10: The Lord makes them companions of princes
and puts
them in places of honor.
11: The foundations of the earth belong to the
Lord;
on them he
has built the world.
12: The Lord protects the lives of his faithful
people,
but the
wicked disappear in darkness;
13: People do not triumph by their own strength.
14: The
Lord’s enemies will be destroyed;
he will
thunder against them from heaven.
15: The Lord will judge the whole world;
he will
give power to his king,
he will
make his chosen king victorious.
~ from Carolyn Brown’s Worshipping
with Children website. http://www.worshipingwithchildren.blogspot.ca/
