1 Reis 17

1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."

2 Then Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, 3 "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." 5 So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. 7 After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

8 Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, 9 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you."

10 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 As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."

12 She said, "As Yahweh 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 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 For Yahweh, 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 Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’"

15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, he, and her household ate many days. 16 The jar of meal didn’t run out and the jar of oil didn’t fail, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Elijah.

17 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 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 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 He cried to Yahweh and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?"

21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh and said, "Yahweh my God, please let this child’s soul come into him again."

22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 23 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 The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth."

Ka Poropiti a Irāia i te Taurakitanga

1 Nā, ka mea a Irāia Tihipi, nō ngā tāngata o Kireara, ki a Āhapa, "E ora ana a Ihowā, te Atua o Īharaira, kei tōna aroaro nei ahau e tū ana, e kore ēnei tau e whai tōmairangi, e whai ua; engari mā tāku kupu anake."

2 Nā, ka puta te kupu a Ihowā ki a ia, ka mea, 3 "Haere atu i konei, anga atu whaka te rāwhiti, ka piri ki te awa ki Keriti, e aro nui atu nā ki Horano. 4 Ā, kei te awa he wai mōu; kua oti hoki ngā raweni te whakahau e ahau hei whāngai i a koe i reira."

5 Nā, haere ana ia, meatia ana tā Ihowā i kōrero ai; i haere hoki, ā, noho ana ki te taha o te awa, o Keriti, e aro nui nei ki Horano. 6 Ā, nā ngā raweni i kawe mai he taro, he kikokiko māna i te ata, he taro, he kikokiko māna i te ahiahi; nō te awa hoki tōna wai. 7 Nāwai ā kei ētahi rā mai, ka maroke te awa, kāhore hoki he ua o te whenua.

Ko Irāia rāua ko te Pouaru kei Harepata

8 Nā, ka puta mai te kupu a Ihowā ki a ia, ka mea: 9 "Whakatika, haere ki Harepata o Hairona, ki reira noho ai. Nanā, kua oti tētahi wahine pouaru o reira te whakahau e ahau hei whāngai i a koe ki reira."

10 Nā, whakatika ana ia, haere ana ki Harepata. Ā, nō tōna taenga atu ki te kūwaha o te pā, nā, ko tētahi wahine i reira, he pouaru, e kohikohi rākau ana. Ā, ka karanga atu ia ki a ia ka mea, "Mauria mai he wai mōku i roto i te oko, hei inu māku." 11 Nā, haere ana tērā ki te tiki, ā, ka karanga anō ia ki a ia, "Tēnā tētahi wāhi taro maua mai i tōu ringa māku."

12 Nā, ka mea ia, "E ora ana a Ihowā, tōu Atua, kāhore āku keke; engari he kutanga parāoa i roto i te oko, me tētahi hinu, he iti nei, i roto i te ipu, e kohikohi ana anō tēnei ahau i ngā rākau e rua, kia haere ai ahau ki te taka i taua mea mā māua ko tāku tama, mō tā māua kai atu, ka mate ai."

13 Nā, ka mea a Irāia ki a ia, "Kaua e wehi, tīkina, meatia tāu i kī mai nā; otiia, mātua hangā mai tētahi wāhi hei keke māku, kia nohinohi, ka mau mai ai ki ahau; ā muri iho ka hangā mā kōrua ko tāu tama. 14 Ko te kupu hoki tēnei a Ihowā, a te Atua o Īharaira: ‘E kore e pau te oko parāoa, e kore anō te ipu hinu e poto ā taea noatia te rā e hōmai ai e Ihowā he ua ki te mata o te whenua.’ "

15 Nā, haere ana ia; meatia ana tā Irāia i kī ai, ā, kai ana rāua, me tōna whare anō, i ngā rā maha. 16 Kīhai te oko parāoa i hemo, kīhai hoki te ipu hinu i poto, rite tonu ki te kupu a Ihowā i kōrerotia rā e Irāia.

Ka Whakahouora a Irāia i te Tama o te Pouaru

17 Ā, i muri i ēnei mea ka takoto mate te tama a taua wahine nōna nei te whare; nui atu te kaha o tōna mate, kāhore noa iho he manawa i mahue i roto i a ia. 18 Nā, ka mea ia ki a Irāia, "He aha tāku ki a koe, e te tangata a te Atua? I haere mai nā koe ki ahau kia whakamaharatia mai ōku hē, ki te whakamate hoki i tāku tama!"

19 Nā, ka mea tērā ki a ia, "Hōmai tāu tamaiti ki ahau." Nā, tangohia ana e ia i tōna uma, ā, kawea ana ki te rūma i runga, ki te wāhi i noho ai ia, whakatakotoria ana e ia ki tōna moenga. 20 Nā, ka karanga ia ki a Ihowā, ka mea, "E Ihowā, e tōku Atua, kua meatia anō hoki e koe he kino ki tēnei pouaru e noho nei ahau ki a ia, i tāna tama ka whakamatea nei?" 21 Nā, whārōrō ana ia, e toru ngā whārōrōtanga ki runga ki te tamaiti, ā, ka karanga ki a Ihowā, ka mea, "E Ihowā, e tōku Atua, kia hoki mai te wairua o tēnei tamaiti ki roto ki a ia."

22 Nā, rongo tonu a Ihowā ki te reo o Irāia; ā, hoki ana te wairua o te tamaiti ki roto ki a ia, nā, kua ora. 23 Nā, ka mau a Irāia ki te tamaiti, ā, kawea atu ana i taua rūma ki raro, ki te whare, ā, hoatu ana ki tōna whaea; ā, ka mea a Irāia, "Titiro, kei te ora tāu tama."

24 Nā, ka mea te wahine rā ki a Irāia, "Kātahi rawa ahau ka mōhio he tangata koe nā te Atua, he pono anō te kupu a Ihowā i tōu māngai."