² The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.^(A)

¹⁷ Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you.^(A) He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain;^(B) the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land^(C) the Lord is giving you.

Elijah Announces Famine

17 Now Elijah^(A) the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers,^[a](B) said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives,^(C) in whose presence I stand, there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!” ^(D)

¹³ If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people,^(A)

²⁵ But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,^(A) when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.