Léctio libri primi Regum (18,41-46)
In diébus illis: ait Elías ad Achab: " Ascénde, cómede et bibe, quia sonus multæ plúviæ est ". Ascéndit Achab, ut coméderet et bíberet. Elías autem ascéndit in vérticem Carméli et pronus in terram pósuit fáciem inter génua sua et dixit ad púerum suum: " Ascénde et próspice contra mare ". Qui, cum ascen disset et contemplátus esset, ait: " Non est quidquam ". Et rursum ait illi: " Revertére septem vícibus ". In séptima autem vice dixit: " Ecce nubécula parva quasi manus hóminis ascéndit de mari ". Et ait: " Ascénde et dic Achab: Iúnge et descénde, ne óccupet te plúvia! ". Et factum est intérea: ecce cæli contenebráti sunt, et nubes et ventus, et facta est plúvia grandis. Ascéndens ítaque Achab ábiit in Iézrahel. Et manus Dómini facta est super Elíam; accinctísque lumbis, currébat ante Achab, donec veníret in Iézrahel.
In those days: Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat and drink: because there is sound of much rain. Achab went up to eat and drink: and Elias went up into the top of Carmel, and flat on the earth put his face between his knees, and he said to his servant: Go up, and look toward the sea. Who when he was gone up, and had looked, he said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times. And in the seventh time: Behold a little cloud as it were a man's foot came up from the sea. Who said: Go up and say to Achab: Yoke thy chariot and go down, lest the rain prevent thee. And when he turned himself hither and thither, behold the heavens were darkened, and clouds, and wind, and there fell great rain. Achab therefore going up went into Jezrahel: and the hand of our Lord was made upon Elias, and his loins girded he ran before Achab, until he came into Jezrahel.
