Catholic Public Domain Version

1 Kings 18:8-14 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. And he responded to him: "I am. Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here."

9. And he said: "How have I sinned that you would deliver me, your servant, into the hand of Ahab, so that he would put me to death?

10. As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom to which my lord has not sent, seeking you. And when all responded, 'He is not here,' he swore each kingdom and nation to an oath, because you were not found at all.

11. And now, you say to me, 'Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here.'

12. And when I will have departed from you, the Spirit of the Lord will transport you to a place that I do not know. And entering, I will report to Ahab. And he, not finding you, will put me to death. Yet your servant has feared the Lord from his infancy.

13. Has it not been revealed to you, my lord, what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord: how I hid one hundred men from the prophets of the Lord, fifty and fifty, in caves, and how I fed them with bread and water?

14. And now you say: 'Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here,' so that he may kill me!"