4 Kings 8:1
And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst find: for the Lord hath exiled a famine, and it shall come upon the land seven years.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Eliseus autem locutus est ad mulierem cujus vivere fecerat filium, dicens : Surge, vade tu et domus tua, et peregrinare ubicumque repereris : vocavit enim Dominus famem, et veniet super terram septem annis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ Ἐλεισαῖε ἐλάλησεν πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα ἧς ἐζωπύρησεν τὸν υἱὸν λέγων Ἀνάστηθι καὶ δεῦρο σὺ καὶ ὁ οἶκός σου καὶ παροίκει οὗ ἐὰν παροικήσῃς, ὅτι κέκληκεν Κύριος λιμὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ γε ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἑπτὰ ἔτη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וֶאֱלִישָׁ֡ע דִּבֶּ֣ר אֶל הָאִשָּׁה֩ אֲשֶׁר הֶחֱיָ֨ה אֶת בְּנָ֜הּ לֵאמֹ֗ר ק֤וּמִי וּלְכִי֙ אתי וּבֵיתֵ֔ךְ וְג֖וּרִי בַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר תָּג֑וּרִי כִּֽי קָרָ֤א יְהוָה֙ לָֽרָעָ֔ב וְגַם בָּ֥א אֶל הָאָ֖רֶץ שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Famine. God disposes of all things. (Calmet)
Famine, &c., are his executioners. (Du Hamel)
This dreadful visitation took place before the siege of Samaria, (Salien) and had even commenced when Eliseus raise the child to life; (chap. iv. 38.) so that we might translate, "Eliseus had spoken," &c. (Calmet)
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.