## I am a woman of sorrowful spirit ##

AT: "I am a woman who is deeply sad."

## pouring out my soul before Yahweh ##

AT: "telling Yahweh my deepest emotions" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## I have been speaking out of the abundance of my great concern and provocation ##

This is another way of saying that she has a "sorrowful spirit" in 1:15.

## provocation ##

Hannah was referring to all the grief and shame she has had to endure from her husband's other wife.