13 ^fWhen I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,

Elijah Predicts a Drought

1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of ^sTishbe¹ in Gilead, said to Ahab, ^t“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, ^ubefore whom I stand, ^vthere shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”