Hannah Song

One mama just tell her small boy bye-bye, she leave am make e grow inside God house. You fit expect say she go cry. Instead, she raise her head, and she sing.

We dey Shiloh, for di hill country of Ephraim, where di house of di Lord dey. Hannah, wey for many years no get pikin and her rival dey mock her, don pray and God don hear her. God give her one son, Samuel. And as she promise, when di boy don stop to suck breast, she carry am go meet Eli di priest, make e serve di Lord all im life. For dis time, Israel dey inside dark season. King no dey. Everybody dey do wetin im own eye see as correct. Even Eli own sons, wey be priests, dey greedy and dem dey do corruption. And for di middle of all dis, one mama wey get grateful heart pray one song.

Hannah start with joy. My heart dey rejoice for di Lord; my horn don rise high for di Lord. Horn for here na picture of strength, like strong animal wey raise im head up. She no dey bend down again. She dey smile give her enemies, she talk, because she dey rejoice for God salvation. Then she praise who God be. Nobody holy like di Lord. Nobody dey apart from you. No rock dey like our God. Hannah don lean her whole body for God for di time of her trouble. And she find say e strong like rock.

Then Hannah turn face di proud people. Stop to dey talk with pride, she talk. Make no proud word comot from una mouth, because di Lord na God wey know everything, and e dey weigh every action. And then she sing about how God dey turn di world upside down. Di bow of di mighty people don break, and di people wey dey stumble, God don wear dem strength. Di people wey belle full before, now dey hire demselves out for bread, and di people wey dey hungry no dey hungry again. Di woman wey no fit born pikin don born seven, and di one wey get plenty sons dey weak dey go. Di Lord dey kill and e dey give life. E dey bring down, and e dey lift up.

Listen to di heart of her song. E dey raise poor person comot from dust, e dey lift beggar comot from di dunghill, to make dem siddon with princes. Di people wey nobody dey notice, wey dey siddon for dirt, God dey put dem beside princes. Di pillars of di earth na im own. E go guard di leg of im faithful people, but di wicked go quiet for darkness. Because no be by strength person go win. And then, for di very end, Hannah talk something wey go surprise you. Di Lord go judge di ends of di earth. E go give strength to im king, and lift up di horn of im anointed one. Israel never even get king yet. But Hannah sing about one.

More than one thousand years after, one young woman from Nazareth sing one song wey sound well well like Hannah own. For Luke Gospel, Mary rejoice for God her Saviour, and she sing say e don pull di mighty people comot from dia seat, e don lift up di people wey dey low, e don fill di hungry with good tins and send di rich people go with empty hand. Scholars don notice for long time how Mary song, wey people dey call di Magnificat, resemble Hannah own. Two mamas, one long promise.

Hannah song dey First Samuel chapter two, verse one reach ten. Di boy wey she give back to God go anoint di kings of Israel, and di anointed one wey she sing about go one day born for Bethlehem. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. Hannah sing about God wey dey lift up di people wey dey low. Who dey around you wey dey inside dust, and how you fit help lift am up?