²⁵ Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

¹⁵ For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

²¹ In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

²⁶ Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.

²⁷ And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

²⁸ But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.

²⁹ And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the evil spirit has gone out of your daughter.

¹⁵ Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

¹ Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.

² So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

⁹ Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands

²⁰ But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?