Léctio libri primi Regum (17,7-16)
In diébus illis : siccátus est torrens; non enim plúerat super terram. Factus est ígitur sermo Dómini ad eum dicens: " Surge et vade in Sarépta Sidoniórum et manébis ibi; præcépi enim ibi mulíeri víduæ, ut pascat te ". Surréxit et ábiit Saréptam. Cumque venísset ad portam civitátis, appáruit ei múlier vídua cólligens ligna; et vocávit eam dixítque: " Da mihi páululum aquæ in vase, ut bibam ". Cumque illa pérgeret, ut afférret, clamávit post tergum eíus dicens: " Affer mihi, óbsecro, et buccéllam panis in manu tua ". Quæ respóndit: " Vivit Dóminus Deus tuus, non hábeo panem, nisi quantum pugíllus cápere potest farínæ in hýdria et páululum ólei in lécytho. En cólligo duo ligna, ut ingrédiar et fáciam illud mihi et fílio meo, ut comedámus et moriámur ". Ad quam Elías ait: " Noli timére, sed vade et fac, sicut dixísti; verúmtamen mihi primum fac de ipsa farínula subcinerícium panem párvulum et affer ad me; tibi autem et fílio tuo fácies póstea. Hæc autem dicit Dóminus, Deus Israel: "Hýdria farínæ non defíciet, nec lécythus ólei minuétur usque ad diem, in qua datúrus est Dóminus plúviam super fáciem terræ" ". Quæ ábiit et fecit iúxta verbum Elíæ et comédit illa et ipse et domus eíus per dies. Hýdria farínæ non defécit, et lécythus ólei non est imminútus iúxta verbum Dómini, quod locútus fúerat in manu Elíæ.
In those days: the torrent was dried: for it had not rained upon the earth. Therefore the word of our Lord came to him, saying: Arise, and go into Sareptha of the Sidonians, and thou shalt tarry there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee. He arose and went into Sareptha. And when he was come to the gate of the city, the widow woman appeared to him gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And when she went to fetch it, he cried after her saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. who answered: Our Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but so much meal in a pot as a hand can hold, and a little oil in a vessel: behold I gather two sticks, that I may go in, and dress it for me & my son, that we may eat, and die. To whom Elias said: fear not, but go, and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, & bring it to me: & for thyself & thy son thou shalt make afterward. For thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not fail, nor the vessel of oil be diminished until the day, wherein our Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth. Who went and did according to the word of Elias: and he did eat, and she, and her house: and from that day the pot of meal failed not, and the vessel of oil was not diminished, according to the word of our Lord, which he spake in the hand of Elias.
