Léctio libri primi Regum (19, 4-8)
In diébus illis: Perréxit Elias in desértum via uníus diéi; cumque venísset et sedéret subter unam iuníperum, petívit ánimæ suæ, ut morerétur, et ait: " Súfficit mihi, Dómine! Tolle ánimam meam; neque enim mélior sum quam patres mei ". Proiecítque se et obdormívit in umbra iuníperi; et ecce ángelus tétigit eum et dixit illi: " Surge, cómede! ". Respéxit, et ecce ad caput suum subcinerícius panis et vas aquæ; comédit ergo et bibit et rursum obdormívit. Reversúsque est ángelus Dómini secúndo et tétigit eum dixítque illi: " Surge, cómede! Grandis enim tibi restat via ". Qui, cum surrexísset, comédit et bibit et ambulávit in fortitúdine cibi illíus quadragínta diébus et quadragínta nóctibus usque ad montem Dei Horeb.
In those days, Eias went forward into the desert, one day's journey. And when he was come, and sat under a juniper tree, he desired for his soul to die, and said: It sufficeth me Lord, take my soul: for I am not better than my fathers. And he cast himself down, & slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: & behold an Angel of our Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise, and eat. He looked, and behold at his head hearth-baked bread, and a vessel of water: he therefore did eat, & drink, & he slept again. And the Angel of our lord returned the second time, & touched him, & said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go. Who when he was risen, did eat & drink, and walked in the strength of that meat forty days, & forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.
