1 Kings 18:27-29

New Catholic Bible

²⁷ At noon, Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry out loud, for he is a god. He might be meditating, or maybe he has gone aside. Perhaps he is on a journey, or maybe he is asleep and needs to be woken up.”

²⁸ So they cried out loud, and they slashed themselves with knives and swords as was their custom until blood gushed out from their bodies. ²⁹ In the afternoon they prophesied until the time of the evening sacrifice, but there was no voice, no answer, no one listened.