1. Then Elijah the prophetrose up like fire,and his word burned like a torch.
2. He brought a famine upon them,and he reduced their number by his zeal.
3. By the Lord’s word he shut up the sky,and in the same wayhe brought down fire three times.
4. How glorious you were, Elijah,in your amazing deeds!Who will boast like you can?
5. You raised a corpse from death,from the grave by a wordof the Most High.
6. You brought kings down to destructionand dragged the famousfrom their beds.
7. You heard a rebuke at Sinaiand decrees of punishment at Horeb.
8. You anointed kings to bring retributionand prophets to succeed you.
9. You were taken up in a whirlwind of fireand in a chariot of fiery horses.