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CHAPTER 48.
AND Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a
torch.
2 He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked
him in their envy, were reduced to a small number, for they could not endure
the commandments of the Lord.
3 By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and he
brought down fire from heaven thrice.
4 Thus was Elias magnified in his wondrous works. And
who can glory like to thee?
5 Who raisedst up a dead man from below, from the lot
of death, by the word of the Lord God.
6 Who broughtest down kings to destruction, and brokest
easily their power in pieces, and the glorious from their bed.
7 Who heardest judgment in Sina, and in Horeb the
judgments of vengeance.
8 Who anointedst kings to penance, and madest prophets
successors after thee.
9 Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a
chariot of fiery horses.
10 Who art registered in the judgments of times to
appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son,
and to restore the tribes of Jacob.
11 Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured
with thy friendship.
12 For we live only in our life, but after death our
name shall not be such.
13 Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his
spirit was filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no
man was more powerful than he.
14 No word could overcome him, and after death his body
prophesied.
15 In his life he did great wonders, and is death he
wrought miracles.
16 For all this the people repented not, neither did
they depart from their sins till they were cast out of their land, and were
scattered through all the earth.
17 And there was left but a small people, and a prince
in the house of David.
18 Some of these did that which pleased God: but others
committed many sine.
19 Ezechias fortified his city, and brought in water
into the midst thereof, and he digged a rock with iron, and made a well for
water.
20 In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces,
and lifted up his hand against them, and he stretched out his hand against
Sion, and became proud through his power.
21 Then their hearts and hands trembled, and they were
in pain as women in travail.
22 And they called upon the Lord who is merciful, and
spreading their hands, they lifted them up to heaven: and the holy Lord God
quickly heard their voice.
23 He was not mindful of their sins, neither did he
deliver them up to their enemies, but he purified them by the hand of Isaias,
the holy prophet.
24 He overthrew the army of the Assyrians, and the
angel of the Lord destroyed them.
25 For Ezechias did that which pleased God, and walked
valiantly in the way of David his father, which Isaias, the great prophet, and
faithful in the sight of God, had commanded him.
26 In his days the sun went backward, and he lengthened
the king's life.
27 With a great spirit he saw the things that are to
come to pass at last, and comforted the mourners in Sion.
28 He shewed what should come to pass for ever, and
secret things before they came.
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