Elijah Predicts Drought

17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of [a](A)the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “(B)As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, (C)there shall certainly be neither dew nor rain during these years, except by my word.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 17:1 Another reading is Tishbe in Gilead

But it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

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15 [a]You (A)broke open springs and torrents;
[b]You (B)dried up ever-flowing streams.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:15 Or You Yourself
  2. Psalm 74:15 Or You Yourself

15 I will (A)lay waste the mountains and hills
And wither all their vegetation;
I will (B)turn the rivers into coastlands
And dry up the ponds.

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Why was there (A)no one when I came?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Is My (B)hand so short that it cannot redeem?
Or do I have no power to rescue?
Behold, I (C)dry up the sea with My rebuke,
I (D)turn rivers into a wilderness;
Their fish stink for lack of water,
And die of thirst.

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