¹¹ For I ^(A)called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on ^(B)all the labor of your hands.”

^17 (A)I struck you with blight and mildew and hail ^(B)in all the labors of your hands; ^(C)yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord.

^22 (A)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with ^(B)scorching,^[a] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

The King Restores the Shunammite’s Land

8 Then Elisha spoke to the woman ^(A)whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the Lord ^(B)has called for a ^(C)famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years.”

Elijah Proclaims a Drought

17 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the ^(A)inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, ^(B)“As the Lord God of Israel lives, ^(C)before whom I stand, ^(D)there shall not be dew nor rain ^(E)these years, except at my word.”