列王紀上 17
1 基列寄居的提斯比人以利亞對亞哈說：「我指着所事奉永生耶和華－以色列的上帝起誓，這幾年我若不禱告，必不降露，不下雨。」
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
2 耶和華的話臨到以利亞說：
Then the LORD’s word came to him, saying,
3 「你離開這裏往東去，藏在約旦河東邊的基立溪旁。
“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
4 你要喝那溪裏的水，我已吩咐烏鴉在那裏供養你。」
You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
5 於是以利亞照着耶和華的話，去住在約旦河東的基立溪旁。
So he went and did according to the LORD’s word, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.
6 烏鴉早晚給他叼餅和肉來，他也喝那溪裏的水。
The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.
7 過了些日子，溪水就乾了，因為雨沒有下在地上。
After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
8 耶和華的話臨到他說：
The LORD’s word came to him, saying,
9 「你起身往西頓的撒勒法去，住在那裏；我已吩咐那裏的一個寡婦供養你。」
“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
10 以利亞就起身往撒勒法去。到了城門，見有一個寡婦在那裏撿柴，以利亞呼叫她說：「求你用器皿取點水來給我喝。」
So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
11 她去取水的時候，以利亞又呼叫她說：「也求你拿點餅來給我！」
As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12 她說：「我指着永生耶和華－你的上帝起誓，我沒有餅，罈內只有一把麵，瓶裏只有一點油；我現在找兩根柴，回家要為我和我兒子做餅；我們吃了，死就死吧！」
She said, “As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
13 以利亞對她說：「不要懼怕！可以照你所說的去做吧！只要先為我做一個小餅拿來給我，然後為你和你的兒子做餅。
Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me a little cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.
14 因為耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：罈內的麵必不減少，瓶裏的油必不缺短，直到耶和華使雨降在地上的日子。」
For the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.’”
15 婦人就照以利亞的話去行。她和她家中的人，並以利亞，吃了許多日子。
She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days.
16 罈內的麵果不減少，瓶裏的油也不缺短，正如耶和華藉以利亞所說的話。
The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.
17 這事以後，作那家主母的婦人，她兒子病了；病得甚重，以致身無氣息。
After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.
18 婦人對以利亞說：「神人哪，我與你何干？你竟到我這裏來，使上帝想念我的罪，以致我的兒子死呢？」
She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”
19 以利亞對她說：「把你兒子交給我。」以利亞就從婦人懷中將孩子接過來，抱到他所住的樓中，放在自己的床上，
He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.
20 就求告耶和華說：「耶和華－我的上帝啊，我寄居在這寡婦的家裏，你就降禍與她，使她的兒子死了嗎？」
He cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
21 以利亞三次伏在孩子的身上，求告耶和華說：「耶和華－我的上帝啊，求你使這孩子的靈魂仍入他的身體！」
He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to the LORD and said, “LORD my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again.”
22 耶和華應允以利亞的話，孩子的靈魂仍入他的身體，他就活了。
The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23 以利亞將孩子從樓上抱下來，進屋子交給他母親，說：「看哪，你的兒子活了！」
Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
24 婦人對以利亞說：「現在我知道你是神人，耶和華藉你口所說的話是真的。」
The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the LORD’s word in your mouth is truth.”
