¹⁷ Elijah was ^(A)a man with a nature like ours, and ^(B)he prayed ^[a]earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for ^(C)three years and six months. ¹⁸ Then he ^(D)prayed again, and ^(E)the ^[b]sky gave rain and the earth produced its fruit.