20He cried to Yahweh, and said, |Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?|


In Context

17 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

18 She said to Elijah, |What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!|

19 He said to her, |Give me your son.| He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, |Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?|

21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, |Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again.|

22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

1 Kings 17:20 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:20Then he cried out to the Lord , "O Lord my God, have you brought tragedy also upon this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:20And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:20And 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?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:20And he cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:20And he cried to Jehovah and said, Jehovah, my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:20And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:20And he cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:20and crieth unto Jehovah, and saith, 'Jehovah my God, also on the widow with whom I am sojourning hast Thou done evil — to put her son to death?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:20And he cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?