Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

3 Kings 17:19-24 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

19. And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

20. And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a so maintained, so as to kill her son?

21. And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: 0 Lord my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.

22. And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.

23. And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth.

24. And the woman said to Elias: Now, by this I know that thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.