5 Lekeni Elikana yang’ali yomwing’agha Hana hunde kulu, kwaapfila tsakamkunda sideke, hata ka IMNDEWA tsakamtenda yaleke kweleka iwana.
8 Na Elikana, immale wake kamghutsa, "Hana chulila choni? Hebali ng’ukuja baye? Heule ukwona usungu? Angu nene sinoghile baye kubita iwana kumi?"
11 Hana keka natsili, kalonga, "Ghwe IMNDEWA yana ingupfu, undole nene mtumighwa wako! Ulole maghayo ghangu, na ung’umbuke, uleke kunisemwa! Ka kutsongaya mwana mmale, nelaha ghendo nitsokulapfila ghweghwe IMNDEWA imwana ayo yawe wako matsuwa ghake ghose hayatsokala mghima, na ng’atsogheta baye tsimvili tsake kwaapfila kalapfighwa kwa IMNDEWA."1:11 Kupeta 6:4-7
23 Elikana, mmale wake kamwidika, "Tenda ighokunoghetsa, ukale ahano mbaka imwana hayatsoleka kughwawa. Na IMNDEWA yatimilitse inatsili yawikile." Apfo Hana kakala ukaye, kamlela imwanaghe mbaka imwana hayalekile ukughwawa.
27 Ning’ali nimlomba IMNDEWA Imulungu yangaye imwana ayuno, naye IMNDEWA Imulungu kangaya ka pfanimlombile. 28 Apfo nomwing’a IMNDEWA Imulungu imwana ayuno, ghamatsuwa ghose hayatsokala mghima, yeye kalapfighwa kwa IMNDEWA Imulugu." Kuya ako wamtamanila IMNDEWA Imulungu.