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4 Kings 3:20

And it came to pass in the morning, when the sacrifices used to be offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Factum est igitur mane, quando sacrificium offerri solet, et ecce aquæ veniebant per viam Edom, et repleta est terra aquis.
Septuagint (Swete)
καὶ ἐγένετο τὸ πρωὶ ἀναβαινούσης τῆς θυσίας, καὶ ἰδοὺ ὕδατα ἤρχοντο ἐξ ὁδοῦ Ἐδώμ, καὶ ἐπλήσθη ἡ γῆ ὕδατος.
Hebrew (WLC)
וַיְהִ֤י בַבֹּ֨קֶר֙ כַּעֲל֣וֹת הַמִּנְחָ֔ה וְהִנֵּה מַ֥יִם בָּאִ֖ים מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ אֱד֑וֹם וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א הָאָ֖רֶץ אֶת הַמָּֽיִם

Haydock's commentary

Offered, at sun-rise, Exodus xxix. 38.

Water, produced miraculously, without any rain being seen; (ver. 17.; Calmet) though it might fall at a distance in Idumea. (Haydock)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.