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NASB | 1 Samuel 1:13 As for Hannah, she was speaking in her heart, only her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. So Eli thought she was drunk. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Samuel 1:13 Hannah was speaking in her heart (mind); only her lips were moving, and her voice was not heard, so Eli thought she was drunk. |
Bible Question:
Can music be a Prayer? I have not looked up much research on this but on an opinion base of if u have a verse that would be great .. is it possible for just melody and no words to be a prayer...? |
Bible Answer: Prayer and praise are often so inextricably linked together that it is hard to say where one ends and the other begins. Especially is this true of song. The Book of Psalms has been called the hymnbook of the Bible, and indeed we have ample evidence that the words of the Psalms were, many of them at any rate, sung or accompanied by music. The words -- lyrics, libretto -- of a number of hymns can be considered, and used, as a prayer. The music that accompanies the words, while it can be offered in praise to God, is not necessarily and always set aside as an instrument of praise. For example, Franz Joseph Haydn wrote the music that accompanies the Christian hymn, "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken." But "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles" (Germany, Germany, Over All), the anthem of the infamous Third Reich, is sung to the very same tune. Likewise, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote the music to which "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" is sung. The music, but not the words, is from the third movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The original words -- known as the "Ode to Joy" -- that appear in the symphony were written in German by the poet Schiller, and no Christian church that I know of would dare use these lyrics in worship! To sum up: While it is clear that the words of certain hymns can be considered to be both prayer and praise, music itself is not prayer and not even intrinsically praise; nevertheless, it can be lifted up and dedicated as praise to God. --Hank |
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Hank |